bannered

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of banner.

   The tabloid bannered the resignation across its entire front page.

   Local editors bannered the flood warnings all weekend long.

   Note

   Two quite different actions share this form, because the verb has two transitive meanings: hanging banners on something, and running a story as a banner headline. The headline meaning belongs to newspapers, as in the tabloid had bannered the scandal. Both meanings take a direct object, both form the perfect with have, and both turn passive easily. In the decorating meaning the passive shades into the plain adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Hung or adorned with one or more banners, as along a decorated street or in a festival hall.

   The bannered avenue welcomed the returning team with color and noise.

   Guests entered the bannered ballroom beneath long rows of silk flags.

   Similarfestooned, decorated, bedecked

   Note

   A descriptive adjective formed from banner plus -ed, naming the result of decoration rather than the act. It is not comparable: a street is bannered or it is not, so more bannered or most bannered sounds wrong. The same spelling also serves as the verb's past participle. The adjective describes how a place looks, while the participle reports that someone hung the banners or ran the headline.

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