Definition of American flag

1. Noun. The national flag of the United States of America.

Exact synonyms: Old Glory, Star-spangled Banner, Stars And Stripes
Generic synonyms: Flag

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Flag

American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle
American eagles
American egret
American elder
American elk
American elm
American featherfoil
American feverfew
American flag (current term)
American flagfish
American fly honeysuckle
American flying squirrel
American football
American football game
American foxhound
American frogbit
American gallinule
American gentian
American germander
American ginseng
American golden plover
American golden plovers
American gray birch

Literary usage of American flag

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE American flag WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there ..."

2. The American Political Science Review (1920)
"... carrying any flag in a parade unless the American flag is carried ahead of it, or displaying any flag unless the American flag is displayed above it. ..."

3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE American flag When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... of the American Standard, in Jersey City, " the editor of which had so much maligned the Government, and make them hoist the American flag, or make them ..."

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