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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 States
Familiarity information: THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• 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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