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slughorne

slughorne is the obsolete spelling of slogan.

Meaning of slogan

Noun

slogan (plural slogans)

  1. A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people (such as a movement or political party); a motto.
    • "Right-ho," I [Bertie Wooster] 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.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  2. A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
    Synonyms:
    motto, strapline, tagline
  3. (obsolete) A battle cry among the ancient Irish or highlanders of Scotland.
    • His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border slogan rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...

Forms of slughorne

pluralslughornes

Questions about slughorne

What is slughorne the obsolete spelling of?
Slughorne is the obsolete spelling of slogan.

Words near slughorne in the dictionary

  1. sluggishness
  2. sluggishnesses
  3. sluggos
  4. sluggy
  5. slughorn
  6. slughorne
  7. slughornes
  8. slughorns
  9. slugicide
  10. slugicides
  11. slugified

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slughorne (page history and authors); slogan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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