"pennon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɛnən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pennon.wav Forms: pennons [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛnən Etymology: Inherited from Middle English penoun, pennon, from Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, from Old French penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peth₂-}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|penoun|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English penoun, {{inh+|en|enm|penoun}} Inherited from Middle English penoun, {{der|en|xno|penun}} Anglo-Norman penun, {{der|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{af|fro|penne|-on|nocat=1|pos2=diminutive suffix|t1=feather}} penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pennon (plural pennons)
  1. A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear. Categories (topical): Flags Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts Translations (a thin triangular flag or streamer): вимпел (vimpel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), penó [masculine] (Catalan), banderola [feminine] (Catalan), wimpel [masculine] (Dutch), pendón [masculine] (Galician), Wimpel [masculine] (German), oddveifa [feminine] (Icelandic), vimpill [masculine] (Icelandic), panji (Indonesian), matairangi (Maori), vimpel [masculine] (Norwegian), banner [neuter] (Norwegian), پیكل (piñel) (Ottoman Turkish), پینل (pinel) (Ottoman Turkish), proporzec [masculine] (Polish), флажо́к (flažók) [masculine] (Russian), вы́мпел (výmpel) [masculine] (Russian), vimpel [common-gender] (Swedish), bulsan (Swedish), pindol (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-pennon-en-noun-uzxUCvr2 Disambiguation of Flags: 43 48 9 Disambiguation of Animal body parts: 61 7 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 14 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 64 12 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 52 7 16 3 8 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 59 5 19 2 5 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 57 27 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 61 13 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 63 13 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 59 26 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 52 32 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 54 22 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 67 10 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 60 22 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 59 23 18 Disambiguation of 'a thin triangular flag or streamer': 72 24 3
  2. (nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel. Categories (topical): Nautical, Flags Synonyms: pennant
    Sense id: en-pennon-en-noun-lDVFDz~c Disambiguation of Flags: 43 48 9 Topics: nautical, transport
  3. (literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing. Tags: literary, obsolete Synonyms: pinion
    Sense id: en-pennon-en-noun-CKULDCC9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pennoned Related terms: pennoncel

Inflected forms

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        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "penun"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman penun",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "penne",
        "3": "-on",
        "nocat": "1",
        "pos2": "diminutive suffix",
        "t1": "feather"
      },
      "expansion": "penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Middle English penoun, pennon, from Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, from Old French penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pennons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "pennon (plural pennons)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pennoncel"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 227:",
          "text": "Her yellow lockes crisped, like golden wyre,\nAbout her shoulders weren loosely shed,\nAnd when the winde emongst them did inspyre,\nThey waued like a penon wyde dispred\nAnd low behinde her backe were scattered:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:",
          "text": "Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land\nWith pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 103:",
          "text": "[…] in spite of a sort of screen intended to protect them from the wind, the flame of the torches streamed sideways into the air, like the unfurled pennon of a chieftain.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley and Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 23, p. 214:",
          "text": "Precisely in the middle of the quadrangle were placed perpendicularly in the ground, a hundred or more slender, fresh-cut poles, stripped of their bark, and decorated at the end with a floating pennon of white tappa;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1863, Christina Rossetti, “A Royal Princess” in Isa Craig (ed.), An Offering to Lancashire, London: Emily Faithfull, p. 3,\nVassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, chapter 5, in British and Foreign Arms and Armour, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, pages 65–66:",
          "text": "Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 69:",
          "text": "In 1821 the hobby-horse could have a real mane and a pretty topknot of wire, pennons and bells but with no wheels at the back.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flag",
          "flag"
        ],
        [
          "streamer",
          "streamer"
        ],
        [
          "hung",
          "hung"
        ],
        [
          "lance",
          "lance"
        ],
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 21,\n… a ship most neatly that was lim’d,\nIn all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d."
        },
        {
          "text": "1780, Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Arragon, London: L. Davis et al.,\nFair Commerce wav’d her pennons in our ports;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 11, in Jo's Boys […] , Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 208:",
          "text": "[…] as his eye swept the horizon, clear against the rosy sky shone the white sails of a ship, so near that they could see the pennon at her mast-head and black figures moving on the deck.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
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          "streamer",
          "streamer"
        ]
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        "(nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pennant"
        }
      ],
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        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English literary terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies, London: Francis Constable, “The Religion of the Persees,” Chapter 4, p. 16,\n[…] sodainly there descended before him, as his face was bent towards the earth, an Angell, whose wings had glorious Pennons, and whose face glistered as the beames of the Sunne,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 933-934:",
          "text": "Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he [Satan] drops\nTen thousand fadom deep,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1751, Moses Mendez, “Summer”, in The Seasons, page 11:",
          "text": "Favonius gentle skims along the Grove,\nAnd sheds sweet Odors from his Pennons light.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing."
      ],
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          "wing",
          "wing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pinion"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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      "rhymes": "-ɛnən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vimpel",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вимпел"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "penó"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banderola"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wimpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pendón"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Wimpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oddveifa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vimpill"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "panji"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "matairangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vimpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "banner"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "piñel",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "پیكل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "pinel",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "پینل"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "proporzec"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "flažók",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "флажо́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výmpel",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вы́мпел"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vimpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "bulsan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a thin triangular flag or streamer",
      "word": "pindol"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bayeux Tapestry"
  ],
  "word": "pennon"
}

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