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Definition: STANDARD BEARER |
STANDARD BEARER1. An officer of an army, company, or troop, who bears a standard; -- commonly called color sergeantor color bearer; hence, the leader of any organization; as, the standard bearer of a political party. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STANDARD BEARER |
| English words defined with "STANDARD BEARER": Alferes ♦ Gonfalonier ♦ Staller ♦ Vexillary. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STANDARD BEARER": Vexillar. (references) |
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![]() | Cuban standard bearer. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Equestrian standard bearer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Political Economy | Cote D'ivoire | Alassane Ouattara, founder and standard bearer of the RDR, has been unsuccessful in several attempts to run for elected office. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
standard bearer | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STANDARD BEARER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kryetar (chairman, chairperson, chief, chieftain, coryphaeus, director, elder, governor, head, headman, leader, moderator, president, principal, ringleader, speaker), flamurtar (flag-bearer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حامل العلم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | знаменосец (ensign, gonfalonier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | praporeèník. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | porte-étendard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fähnrich (cadet, ensign, sergeant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σημαιοφόροσ (ensign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zászlótartó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | portabandiera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mergeyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andardstay earerbay portdrapel. (various references) руководитель движения, знаменосец (banner-bearer, gonfalonier, standardbearer, standard-bearer). (various references) barjaktar. (various references) abanderado (flagman, look-out man). (various references) fanbärare (ensign, standard-bearer). (various references) sancaktar (bannerbearer), elebaşı (promoter, protagonist, ringleader, Van, vanguard), bayraktar (bannerbearer, ensign). (various references) прапороносець (ancient, banner-bearer, cornet, ensign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-d-d-e-e-n-r-r-r-s-t" | |
-4 letters: bartenders. | |
-5 letters: aberrants, aberrated, abradants, banterers, barraters, barrenest, bartended, bartender, barterers, darnedest, deadbeats, narraters, redbreast, retarders, sarabande. | |
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