bannister

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
noun a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

Holmes looked triumphantly at Bannister. — The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
But she had never told about the bannister. — The Blue Castle: a novel, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
I found her leaning against the bannisters, deadly pale. — The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie

Roger Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister

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