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STANDARD BEARER

Definition: STANDARD BEARER

STANDARD BEARER

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: STANDARD BEARER

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: STANDARD BEARER

English words defined with "STANDARD BEARER": AlferesGonfalonierStallerVexillary. (references)
Etymologies containing "STANDARD BEARER": Vexillar. (references)

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Commercial Usage: STANDARD BEARER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Standard Bearer a Story of Army Life in the Time Of Caesar (reference)

  • The standard bearer (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: STANDARD BEARER

Illustrations:
STANDARD BEARER

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Photo Album: STANDARD BEARER

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Cuban standard bearer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Equestrian standard bearer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: STANDARD BEARER

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STANDARD BEARER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

standard bearer

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STANDARD BEARER

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

   

Romanian

  

portdrapel. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

руководитель движения, знаменосец (banner-bearer, gonfalonier, standardbearer, standard-bearer). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

barjaktar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

abanderado (flagman, look-out man). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fanbärare (ensign, standard-bearer). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sancaktar (bannerbearer), elebaşı (promoter, protagonist, ringleader, Van, vanguard), bayraktar (bannerbearer, ensign). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

прапороносець (ancient, banner-bearer, cornet, ensign). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STANDARD BEARER

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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