Other forms: standard-bearers
A standard-bearer is the one who carries the flag, or leads a cause. Act as standard-bearer.
In battle the job was dangerous and enormously honourable, since the flag showed where the line was. A standard-bearer for a movement is expected to embody it as well as argue for it.
1nounstandard-bearerThe one who carries the flag, or leads a cause.
“She became the standard-bearer for a campaign she never started.”
standard-bearer is a person.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire