catchword

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkat͡ʃwɜːd/    美 /ˈkæt͡ʃwɚd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. historical
    — 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, 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.

词形变化

catchwords plural

词源

From catch + word.
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