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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (noun)
  The noun THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER has 1 sense:

1. a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER used as a noun is very rare.


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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

national anthem (a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation)


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