Star-Spangled Banner

English

From a description of the United States flag in Defence of Fort McHenry by Francis Scott Key.

The national anthem of the United States of America.
- 2004, Joe Queenan, True Believers, page 158:
  In the course of a single lifetime, the average fan will be forced to hear 1,500 fiendishly unattractive women ... take four and a half minutes to butcher “The Star-Spangled Banner”[.]
- 2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America‎^[1], Threshold Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:
  On Monday, February 21, 1972, as a Chinese military band played “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Nixon became the first American president to visit China while in office.

a nickname for the national flag of the U.S.

Bengali: তারায় সাজা ঝাণ্ডা (taraẏ śaja jhanḍa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 星條旗 / 星条旗 (zh) (xīngtiáoqí), 花旗 (zh) (huāqí)
Danish: stjernebanner n (Archaic)
French: bannière étoilée (fr) f
German: Sternenbanner (de)
Greek: αστερόεσσα (el) (asteróessa)
Japanese: 星条旗 (ja) (せいじょうき, seijōki)
Korean: 성조기 (seongjogi)
Russian: зна́мя, усы́панное звёздами n (známja, usýpannoje zvjózdami), (informal) звёздно-полоса́тый флаг m (zvjózdno-polosátyj flag)
Swedish: stjärnbaneret (sv)
Vietnamese: Lá cờ ánh sao chói lọi

the national anthem of the United States