motto

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A personal slogan.

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

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

   “‘Gentlemen, I can tell you what the new queen will take as her motto. It is Bound to Obey and Serve.’”

3. isim 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.

   “It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... Serve God, and be cheerful.”

4. isim A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
5. fiil To compose mottos.

   “The singularity of his epigraphic strategy notwithstanding, Emerson does not draw attention to his own mottoing. One exchange suggests that his practice was a convention imposed from without.”