slogan

From Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm (“battle cry”), from Old Irish slúag, slóg (“army”), from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“troop, army”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰo-, *slowgo- (“entourage”) + Old Irish gairm (“a call, cry”), from Proto-Celtic *garman-, *garrman- (“a call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r-smn-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r- (“to shout, call”). Possible cognate with Latin garrio (“chatter”), Old English cearu (“sorrow, care”).

• (GenAM) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊɡən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊɡ(ə)n/

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• Hyphenation: slo‧gan
• Rhymes: -əʊɡən

slogan (plural slogans)

1. (advertising) A catch phrase associated with the product or service being advertised.
2. A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     [Bertie Wooster:] “Right-ho,” I said, not much liking the assignment, but liking less the idea of endeavouring to thwart this incandescent aunt in her current frame of mind. Safety first, is the Wooster slogan.

3. (obsolete) A battle cry among the ancient highlanders of Scotland.
   • 1805, Walter Scott, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", IV. xxvii:

     To heaven the Border slogan rung, / The English war-cry answer'd wide.

• (British) strapline
• tagline

• Czech: slogan
• French: slogan
• Italian: slogan
• Portuguese: slogan
• Russian: слоган (slogan)
• Serbo-Croatian: slògān/сло̀га̄н

• Anglos, anglos, langos, logans, longas

From English slogan.

• Hyphenation: slo‧gan

slogan

1. an advertising slogan
2. a distinctive phrase of a person or group of people

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:slogan.

slogan m

1. slogan (advertising)

slogan m (plural slogans)

1. slogan
2. motto

• “slogan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• lagons

Borrowed from English slogan, from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm (“battle cry”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ.ɡan/, [ˈz̪l̺ɔːɡän̺]
• Stress: slògan
• Hyphenation: slo‧gan

slogan m (invariable)

1. slogan, specifically:
   1. A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people.
   2. (advertising) A catch phrase associated with the product or service being advertised.

Borrowed from English slogan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɔ.ɡan/

slogan m inan

1. cliché (“something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost”)
2. (advertising) slogan (“a catch phrase associated with the product or service being advertised”)
3. slogan (“a distinctive phrase of a person or group of people”)

• (an overused phrase): banał, frazes, oczywistość, ogólnik, truizm

• sloganowość
• sloganowy
• sloganowo

• slogan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

slogan m (plural slogans)

1. (advertising) slogan (phrase associated with a product)
2. (by extension) any type of motto

• (motto): lema

From English slogan

• IPA^(key): /slǒɡaːn/
• Hyphenation: slo‧gan

slògān m (Cyrillic spelling сло̀га̄н)

1. slogan (distinctive phrase of a person or group of people)
2. slogan (advertising)

slogan m (plural slóganes or slóganes)

1. slogan