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Antonyms for flag

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : flag
Phonetic Transcription : flæg


Definition of flag

Origin :
  • "cloth ensign," late 15c., now in all modern Germanic languages, but apparently first recorded in English, origin unknown, but likely connected with flag (v.) or else, like it, perhaps imitative. A less likely guess is that it is from the flag in flagstone on notion of being square and flat. U.S. Flag Day (1894) is in reference to the adopting of the Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.
  • noun pennant, symbol
  • verb decline, fall off
  • verb signal
Example sentences :
  • M'Intosh and Roger Smith were then persuaded to go with a flag.
  • Extract from : « A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion » by William Dobein James
  • "My place is by the flag," cried Alleyne, vainly struggling to break from the other's hold.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • I asked when the talk began to flag, as it soon does with Hughy.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • The Medicine Bundle of the tribe is as sacred to them as our flag is to us.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • If you will look outside, you will see a flag at the top of a pole.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Commerce follows the flag only when the flag flies on merchant ships.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Is not his own flag flying there, and at Malta, not only by his permission, but by his order?
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • He caught a glimpse of a flag and uttered a wild shout of joy.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • "I shall miss you most awfully," said she with the air of one flaunting a flag.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Baron Clouet received the flag, and informed Ney of the arrival.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

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