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catchword

noun
/ˈkat͡ʃwɜːd/UK/ˈkæt͡ʃwɚd/US

Etymology

From catch + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as catchword — “catch + word”

Definitions

  1. A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first…

    A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word from the following page. Such words served as aids to the bookbinder (to check rapidly for correct placement of leaves) and were also viewed by some readers as aids to smooth reading.

    • Near-synonym: custos

  2. The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker.

  3. A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school,…

    A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view.

    • One could give a long list of such intellectual fashions and catchwords which in the course of two or three generations have in turn dominated the thinking of the intellectual.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for catchword. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA