pennant
[pen-uh nt]
- a long, tapering flag or burgee of distinctive form and special significance, borne on naval or other vessels and used in signaling or for identification.
- any relatively long, tapering flag.
- a flag serving as an emblem of victory or championship, especially in baseball.
- Music. hook1(def 12a).
- Nautical. pendant(def 6).
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Origin of pennant
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Contemporary Examples
With a pennant, a season, at stake, many pitchers would have taken the shot unhesitatingly.
In the midst of this, almost unnoticed, the Yankees clinched the pennant.
The New York Yankees will not even make the playoffs, let alone win the American League pennant or the World Series.
Historical Examples
Commodore Dallas's pennant was flying in the Constellation when I joined her.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
The barge is coming off, Mr. Hardy, with the pennant flying, sir!
Captain Brand of the "Centipede"H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
She's flying the White Ensign and an admiral's pennant, and, yes, a flag of truce.
The World Peril of 1910George Griffith
One might almost have thought that they were fighting for the pennant.
Baseball Joe Around the WorldLester Chadwick
There had been the fierce, tense race for the pennant that had strained them to the utmost.
Baseball Joe Around the WorldLester Chadwick
pennant
- a type of pennon, esp one flown from vessels as identification or for signalling
- mainly US, Canadian and Australian
- a flag serving as an emblem of championship in certain sports
- (as modifier)pennant cricket
- nautical another word for pendant (def. 5)
- same as flag 1 (def. 10)
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Word Origin
C17: probably a blend of pendant and pennon
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Word Origin and History for pennant
n.
1610s, "rope for hoisting," probably a blend of pendant in the nautical sense of "suspended rope" and pennon. Use for "flag on a warship" first recorded 1690s; "flag symbolizing a sports championship" (especially baseball) is from 1880; as a synonym for "championship" it was first used 1915.
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