Pennant — may refer to: * Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag commonly flown by ships at sea: ** Pennant (commissioning), the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission ** Broad pennant, flown from the… … Wikipedia
Pennant — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Pennant puede referirse a: Thomas Pennant: naturalista galés del siglo XVIII Jermaine Pennant: Futbolista Inglés. Obtenido de Pennant Categoría: Wikipedia:Desambiguación … Wikipedia Español
Pennant — Pen nant, n. [OE. penon, penoun, pynoun, OF. penon, F. pennon, fr. L. penna feather. See {Pen} a feather, and cf. {Pennon}, {Pinion}.] (Naut.) (a) A small flag; a pennon. The {narrow pennant}, or {long pennant} (called also whip or coach whip) is … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pennant — bezeichnet: folgende Personen: Jermaine Pennant (* 1983), englischer Fußballspieler Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), walisischer Naturwissenschaftler, Ornithologe und Altertumsforscher folgende Produkte: Pennant, ein 1924 1925 hergestelltes US… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Pennant — Pennant, Thomas, geb. 1726 zu Downing in Flintshire; studirte die Rechte, legte sich aber bes. auf Naturgeschichte u. Antiquitäten u. machte Reisen in mehre Länder Europas; die Zwischenzeit brachte er auf seinem Landgute Downing zu u. st. 1798.… … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Pennant — Pennant, Thomas, Zoolog, s. Penn … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
pennant — 1610s, rope for hoisting, probably a blend of PENDANT (Cf. pendant) (q.v.) in the nautical sense of suspended rope and PENNON (Cf. pennon). Use for flag on a warship first recorded 1690s; flag symbolizing a sports championship (especially… … Etymology dictionary
pennant — *flag, ensign, standard, banner, color, streamer, pendant, pennon, jack … New Dictionary of Synonyms
pennant — [n] flag, banner banderole, bunting, burgee, color, decoration, emblem, ensign, jack, pennon, screamer, standard, streamer; concepts 260,473 … New thesaurus
pennant — ► NOUN 1) a tapering flag flown at the masthead of a ship in commission. 2) a long triangular or swallow tailed flag. 3) N. Amer. a flag identifying a sports team, club, etc. ORIGIN blend of PENDANT(Cf. ↑pendant) and PENNON(Cf. ↑P) … English terms dictionary
pennant — [pen′ənt] n. [< PENNON, altered by assoc. with PENDANT] 1. any long, narrow, usually triangular flag, as used in naval signal hoists, for a school banner, etc. 2. any such flag symbolizing a championship, esp. in baseball … English World dictionary
