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English
Noun
standard-bearer (plural standard-bearers)
- A person who carries a flag or banner (a standard).
The standard-bearer in battle is in the center of the front line so the following troops know where to go; unfortunately, it also shows the enemy where to shoot.
- (figurative) A person who visibly leads.
He became the standard-bearer for their cause because of his celebrity.
Synonyms
Translations
person who carries flag or banner
- Armenian: դրոշակակիր (hy) (drošakakir)
- Bulgarian: знаменосец (bg) m (znamenosec)
- Buryat: тугша (tugša)
- Catalan: portaestendard m or f
- Danish: fanebærer c (infantry), fændrik c (infantry)
- French: porte-étendard (fr) m
- Greek: σημαιοφόρος (el) (simaiofóros)
- Greenlandic: erfalasulisartoq
- Hindi: ध्वजवाहक (dhvajvāhak), ध्वजी (hi) (dhvajī), झंडाबरदार (hi) (jhaṇḍābardār), झंडेदार (jhaṇḍedār), झंडादार (jhaṇḍādār), निशानची (hi) (niśāncī), अलमबरदार (hi) (almabardār), निशानबरदार (niśānbardār), निशानदार (niśāndār), अलमदार (alamdār), पताकी (hi) (patākī), ध्वजवाह (dhvajvāh)
- Italian: portabandiera (it)
- Japanese: 旗手 (ja) (きしゅ, kishu)
- Kazakh: ту көтеруші (tu köteruşı)
- Latin: vexillārius m, signifer m
- Macedonian: знаме́носец m (znaménosec), ба́јрактар m (bájraktar) (archaic)
- Old English: seġnbora m
- Ottoman Turkish: سنجاقدار (sancakdar), بیراقدار (bayrakdar), علمدار (ʿalemdar)
- Persian: پرچمدار (parčam-dâr)
- Polish: poczet sztandarowy (pl), chorąży (pl) m
- Portuguese: porta-bandeira (pt) m or f, porta-estandarte (pt) m or f
- Russian: знаменосец (ru) m (znamenosec)
- Spanish: abanderado (es) m, abanderada (es) f, portaestandarte m or f
- Swedish: fanbärare (sv)
- Tagalog: abanderado (tl)
- Ukrainian: прапороно́сець (uk) m (praporonósecʹ)
- Welsh: banerwr m
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