bannister

¹

[ ban-uh-ster ]

noun

1. banister.

Bannister

²

[ ban-uh-ster ]

noun

1. Sir Roger (Gilbert), 1929–2018, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.

Bannister

/ ˈbænɪstə /

noun

1. BannisterSir Roger (Gilbert)1929MBritishSPORT AND GAMES: athleteMEDICINE: doctor Sir Roger ( Gilbert ). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)

Example Sentences

Bannister retired from running soon afterward to become a neurologist.

From Washington Post

Bannister, whatever time this young person comes back, see that she is not sent away, and ask her in to the little morning room.

From Project Gutenberg

What'll people think to see a man of my age hanging over a bannister yelling 'Bootsey'!

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I confessed that to the sewing circle, and Mrs. Deacon Bannister ain't seemed the same toward me since, but I don't care.

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He was Pharisaically thankful that he was not as that conglomerate group in the Bannister box.

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"The precise rate of speed and the exact instant of calculation, Captain Jackson," Bannister said.

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