Usage of "shibboleth"

Portuguese

mote

Catalan

eslògan

Spanish

shibboleth

A favorite saying of a sect or political group.

mote

Synonyms

Examples for "motto"

The general motto is…'look after your bike and it'll look after you'. 
 Radio NZ 

Work hard, play hard, and love your family was essentially his motto. 
 Climbing Magazine 

On the banner was inscribed in letters of gold the soul-stirring motto: 
 Sketches of the Covenanters 

He can probably use this quote as his motto if needs be. 
 The Irish Times 

This is a hopeful, even lofty motto for a new book company. 
 The Irish Times 

Last year, Wal-Mart introduced an ad campaign with the slogan Save Money. 
 Reuters 

So far, Sherry couldn't see whether this van carried such a slogan. 
 Come out tonight 

Yes, I don't know where we got that slogan, but that's good. 
 Wired 

A Mercedes-Benz concept that's already a reality. Consumer Reports criticized the slogan. 
 Reuters 

The slogan, which appears also in newspapers in many countries, is Ireland. 
 The Irish Times 

Protestant ascendency, though used as a catchword, is a thing long past. 
 Against Home Rule (1912) / The Case for the Union 

And now it has become the catchword of the entire party. 
 The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Linco... 

The end of a paragraph is the place for a catchword. 
 The Making of Arguments 

That title became a catchword usually employed in a derisive manner. 
 Promenades of an Impressionist 

He it was who gave to the congress that catchword, legitimacy. 
 Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 

Usage of shibboleth in English

The political turn came with the shibboleth that the personal is political. 
 The new yorker 

Trade, property, business, respectability, good form; these were the shibboleth they worshipped. 
 The Vision Splendid 

Then you would ruthlessly put your friends to death for a shibboleth? 
 The Magic Skin 

Success to the Mark Twain Club!-andthe novel shibboleth of the Whistle. 
 Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) 

A G7 shibboleth is support for free trade, and a rules-based world order. 
 The Guardian 

My own shibboleth came in the early 1970s in my first university seminar. 
 The Guardian 

She knew the limits of her shibboleth of culture, and never passed them. 
 Through stained glass / A Novel 

This law, expressed by Goethe, is the controlling shibboleth in all Haeckel's philosophy. 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 / Little J... 

Ever hear that perfectly damnable shibboleth shouted by a Fourth of July orator? 
 The Pride of Palomar 

For two centuries the mosques and the mint proclaimed the shibboleth of the Shiahs. 
 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlem... 

Gossip is the shibboleth of the mediocre, and, thank heaven, I am not mediocre. 
 Parrot & Co. 

Thank God I have done with these people and their disgusting shibboleth of respectability. 
 A Millionaire of Yesterday 

And the Spaniard, as he uttered this emphatic shibboleth, gnashed his teeth with vexation. 
 The Tiger Hunter 

And this led to that shibboleth of the Revolution, "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality." 
 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J... 

Let self-mastery be your shibboleth and 'no nerves' your prayer. 
 The Woman Beautiful; or, The Art of Beauty Culture 

That phrase, "the white man's charter of freedom," had become Lincoln's shibboleth. 
 Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri... 