Definition of Watchwords. Meaning of Watchwords. Synonyms of Watchwords

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Definition of Watchwords

Watchword
Watchword Watch"word`, n. 1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment or motto; esp., one used as a rallying cry or a signal for action. Nor deal in watchwords overmuch. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Watchwords from wikipedia

- available by email each day's Watchwords. Renkewitz, Heintz, Alle Morgen Neu, Herrnhut, Bad Boll, 1972. Daily WatchwordsMoravian Church Daily Texts...
- "Normal Is the Watchword" is the season premiere of the second season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars, and the twenty-third episode...
- watchword, and would only allow a person or group to p**** if they knew the p****word. Polybius describes the system for the distribution of watchwords...
- (Latin: tesserārius, from tessera, a small tile or block of wood on which watchwords were written) was a watch commander in the Roman army. They organized...
- ran uninterrupted, 24 hours a day, for 100 years. Originating the Daily Watchwords. Establishing more than 30 settlements internationally on the Herrnhut...
- Mato-tope (also known as Ma-to-toh-pe or Four Bears, from mato "bear" and tope "four") (c. 1784 - July 30, 1837) was the second chief of the Mandan tribe...
- Candidates for the legislative elections took advantage of antisemitism as a watchword in parliamentary elections. This antisemitism was reinforced by the crisis...
- maintains its religious centre in Herrnhut and it is there where 'The Daily Watchwords' (Losungen) are selected each year which are in use in many churches worldwide...
- over the nightly guard duties, and were responsible for distributing the watchwords for the camp. A tesserarius was typically paid one-and-a-half times the...
- enforced his belief with a strong hand. "Order and Progress" were the watchwords of his rule. Díaz's presidency was characterized by the promotion of industry...