streamer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun light that streams
    • streamers of flames
  2. noun a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
    banner.
  3. noun a long flag; often tapering
    pennon; waft; pennant.
  4. noun long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
    banner.

WordNet


Stream"er noun
Definitions
  1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
    Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.
  2. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay.
    While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.
  3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.

Webster 1913