Meaning

4 senses
  1. A personal slogan.

    You have to be in it to win it — that's my motto.

  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

    Motto, Wahlspruch

    деви́зdevíz

    деві́зdevíz, га́слоháslo

  3. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

    Motto

    деви́зdevíz

    деві́зdevíz

  4. (obsolete)A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

More definitions
  • a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual

Examples

37 sentences
  1. That's my motto.

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  2. Do you have a motto?

    ruУ тебя есть девиз?

    deHast du ein Motto?

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  3. That was her motto in life.

    ruЭто был её девиз в жизни.

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  4. You mustn't carelessly believe the maker's motto.

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  5. "Better suffer than die" is humans' motto.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement:
Русский
By meaning 1
sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”),

Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c. Doublet of mot.

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Forms

plural: mottos / mottoes
Singularmotto
Pluralmottos / mottoes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
motto — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto