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• bannister
  bannister

  noun

  banister.
• Bannister
  Bannister

  noun

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

bannister

¹ American  

[ban-uh-ster] / ˈbæn ə stər /

noun

1. banister.

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Bannister ² American  

[ban-uh-ster] / ˈbæn ə stər /

noun

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

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Bannister British  

/ ˈbænɪstə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

"She was struggling and kicking out the whole time, holding on to the bannister."

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023

During the tour with Delano, the charm of the house is on display with a carved wooden bannister in the house’s front hall and barrel ceilings in two second-floor bedrooms.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2019

He hooked an arm inside the bannister and pivoted at each landing, letting centrifugal force whirl him around the hairpin and down the next flight.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2018

He gave the finger to protesting farmers, pirouetted behind the Queen and rode down a bannister in Moscow.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2016

Shallow moons had been worn into the risers; the bannister, he saw, had lost its luster.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson