Pennant may refer to:

Flag or banner

Pennon A pennon, also known as a pennant or pendant, is a long narrow flag which is larger at the hoist than at the fly. It can have several shapes, such as triangular, tapering (square tail) or triangular swallowtail (forked tail), etc. In maritime ...

(or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag **

Commissioning pennant The commissioning pennant (or masthead pennant) is a pennant (also spelled "pendant") flown from the masthead of a warship. The history of flying a commissioning pennant dates back to the days of chivalry with their trail pendants being flown fr ...

, the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission **

Broad pennant A broad pennant is a triangular swallow-tailed naval pennant flown from the masthead of a warship afloat or a naval headquarters ashore to indicate the presence of either: (a) a Royal Navy officer in the rank of Commodore, or (b) a U.S. Nav ...

, flown from the masthead of a British Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board **

Pennant (church) A church pennant is a pennant flown to indicate that a religious service is in progress. It is flown on ships and establishments (bases). Marine Nationale The French Navy maintained a church pennant but it fell into disuse in 1905. Royal Navy a ...

, flown by navies during services on board ships *

Pennant number In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of ''pendant number'', which it was called before 1948). Historically, naval ships flew a flag that iden ...

, a number used to identify ships by the British Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth *

Pennant (sports) A pennant is a commemorative flag typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. Pennants have been historically used in all types of athletic levels: high school, collegiate, professional etc. Traditionally, pennants were made o ...

, a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team **

Pennant race The Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament held after the conclusion of the Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season. Starting in 2022, the playoffs for each league— American and National—consist of two best-of-thre ...

, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season * Pennant, a reference to

Flag and pennant patterns The flag and pennant patterns are commonly found patterns in the price charts of financially traded assets (stocks, bonds, futures, etc.). The patterns are characterized by a clear direction of the price trend, followed by a consolidation and r ...

in technical analysis of a stock market chart

Places

Pennant, Ceredigion Pennant is a village in the community of Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales. Pennant is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and is part of the Ceredigion constituency in the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name f ...

, Wales *

Pennant, Powys Pennant is a small village in Powys, mid Wales located on the B4518 road between Llanbrynmair Llanbrynmair () is a village, community and electoral ward in Montgomeryshire, Powys, on the A470 road between Caersws and Machynlleth. Llanbrynmair ...

, Wales *

Pennant, Saskatchewan Pennant ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Riverside No. 168 and Census Division No. 8. History Pennant incorporated as a village on July 29, 1912. Climate Demog ...

, Canada *

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia Pennant Point is a rural community located at the head of Pennant Harbour near Sambro on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on Route 349. Pennant Point is part of the Crystal Crescent Beach Provincial Park, ...

, Canada *

Pennant Hills, New South Wales Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region, or Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsb ...

, Australia

People

Dafydd Pennant Dafydd Pennant was a late 16th-century Welsh poet. Two surviving works are known, a cywydd The cywydd (; plural ) is one of the most important metrical forms in traditional Welsh poetry (cerdd dafod). There are a variety of forms of the cywyd ...

(16th century), Welsh poet *

Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808), was a Welsh politician and nobleman who served as an MP in the British Parliament, representing Petersfield and Liverpool for 29 years between 1761 and 1790. He was the owner of Penr ...

(1737–1808), British politician and owner of sugar plantations in Jamaica *

Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant (14 June Old Style, OS 172616 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales ...

(1726–1798), Welsh writer, naturalist and antiquarian *

Pennant Roberts John Pennant Roberts (15 December 1940 – 22 June 2010) was a British director and producer known for his work in British television drama. Early life Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset to Welsh parents. He went to school i ...

(1940–2010), British television director and producer

Other

* Pennant, the common name of the dragonfly genus ''

Celithemis ''Celithemis'' is a genus of dragonfly, dragonflies in the family Libellulidae. They are known commonly as pennants. There are eight species in this monophyly, monophyletic genus. They are mainly distributed in eastern North America. Species Spec ...

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Pennant (automobile) The Pennant was an automobile marque of the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1924–25) for taxicabs. Barley also made the Roamer (1916–29) and the Barley automobiles (1922–24). The Pennant was a continuation of the Barley conf ...

(1924–25), manufactured by the Barley Motor Car Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, US * ''

The Pennant ''The Pennant'' is a weekly newspaper published in Penola, South Australia, from July 1946. Along with ''The Border Watch'', it was most recently owned by the Scott Group of Companies. After 74 years of publishing, however, the newspaper (along ...

'', a newspaper in Penola, South Australia *

Vympel Directorate "V" of the FSB Special Purpose Center, often referred to as Spetsgruppa "V" Vympel ( pennant in Russian, originated from German , and having the same meaning), but also known as KGB Directorate "V", Vega Group, is an elite Russian ...

, Russian for "Pennant", a Spetznas unit specialised in infiltration and assassination *

Pennant Measures The Pennant Measures is the traditional name for a sequence of sedimentary rocks of the South Wales Coalfield. They were also referred to as the Upper Coal Measures and assigned to the Westphalian 'C' and Westphalian 'D' stages of the Carbonifero ...

, a stratigraphic division of the South Wales Coal Measures and including the Pennant Sandstone * Pennant station, a light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States {{disambiguation, geo