[
US
/ˈkætʃˌwɝd/
]
NOUN
- a favorite saying of a sect or political group
- a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page
How To Use catchword In A Sentence
- But these kinds of puritanical, knee-jerk catchwords are too easy, and they obscure a more complicated truth.
- The catchwords in the headnote say it all really.
- When one thinks of Micawber always presenting himself in the same situation, moved with the same springs and uttering the same sounds, always confident of something turning up, always crushed and rebounding, always making punch -- and his wife always declaring she will never part from him, always referring to his talents and her family -- when one thinks of the 'catchwords' personified as characters, one is reminded of the frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes, and whose actions henceforth want the distinctive peculiarity of organic action, that of fluctuating spontaneity. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
- After all "the people of God" is just a misleading "catchword" for Ratzinger. A Tale of Two Cardinals
- Perhaps it's time someone collected the best catchwords, slogans and political idiom of the 2001 campaign here in Australia.
- With ‘prevention better than cure’ becoming the catchword in the case of heart ailments as with other illnesses, tailor-made preventive heart check-ups have become the in-thing.
- Unusual" isn't a Grammy catchword: in several of the classical categories, the most familiar name won Mitsuko Uchida, Cecelia Bartoli, Jordi Savall or Riccardo Muti, whose convalescence from his recent fall in Chicago may be supported by his winning two Grammys, including Best Classical Album, for the CSO's own release of the Verdi Requiem. Grammys
- If there are some signs of groupings of sayings according to catchwords or themes, then Thomas would had had a motive for abandoning the order of sayings in the canonical gospels.
- Again, the earthquake that ensues on the opening of the sixth seal is one of the catchwords, that is, a link connecting chronologically this sixth seal with the sixth trumpet (Re 9: 13; 11: 13): compare also the seventh vial, Re 16: 17, 18. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- But for me there was by 1938 a matching awareness that neither jobs nor peace were won by slogans or by catchwords.
