Battle Cry

Definition: Battle Cry

Battle Cry

Noun

1. A yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle.

2. A slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Battle Cry

Indication

Word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell.

Warfare

Battle, tug of war; (contention); service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes.

Crosswords: Battle Cry

Battle Cry (1955)

The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Battle Cry (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Battle Cry of Freedom (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is page 2 of the newspaper Washington Post on August 6, 1937 just after President Roosevelt signed a bill to authorize the erection of the National Cancer Institute, with Dr. Carl Voegtlin as the Chief. Shown are photos of Drs. Carl Voegtlin, R. H. Fitch, Herbert Kaher and Thomas Parran (Surgeon General). Shown is "'Conquer Cancer' Adopted as Battle Cry of the Public Health Service.". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The battle cry of freedom. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Keep 'em flying" is our battle cry! Do your part for duty - honor - country / Dan V. Smith ; Albro F. Downe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reach some receptive ear ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

brimë lufte. (various references)

Arabic 

‏صرخة الحرب (slogan), ‏صرخة إعتداء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

боен вик (war cry, war whoop, whoop), повик (call, cry, outcry, watchword). (various references)

Chinese 

吶 . (various references)

French

cri de guerre, cri d'agression. (various references)

German

Kampfruf. (various references)

Greek 

πολεμική κραυγή (slogan, war cry). (various references)

Hebrew 

קריאת קרב. (various references)

Hungarian

csatakiáltás (war cry, whoop). (various references)

Italian

grido di battaglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鯨波 (raging waves). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�'いは (raging waves). (various references)

Manx

gerrym caggee (call up, war cry). (various references)

Pig Latin

attlebay ycray

Portuguese

grito de guerra (slogan, war cry). (various references)

Russian 

боевой клич (banner-cry, cry, war cry, war whoop, warcry, war-cry, war-whoop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bojni poklič, lozinka (parole, password, shibboleth, sign, watchword). (various references)

Spanish

lema (catchword, declaration, device, motto, posy, watchword), grito de guerra. (various references)

Swedish

stridsrop (cry, war cry). (various references)

Turkish

slogan (catch-phrase, catcword, cry, shibboleth, slogan), savaş narası (war cry). (various references)

Ukrainian

лозунг (catchword, slogan), бойовий клич (banner-cry, slogan). (various references)

Welsh

rhyfelgri (war cry). (various references)

Misspellings

"Battle Cry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: battlecry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bractlet, clattery.

-2 letters: battery, battler, blatter, brattle, cattery, clatter, treacly.

-3 letters: acetyl, barely, barley, baryte, batter, battle, betray, bleary, bratty, cablet, cartel, cattle, claret, elytra, labret, latter, lyrate, lyttae, rattle, rattly, realty, rectal, tablet, tartly, tectal, tetryl, treaty, trebly, yatter.

-4 letters: abler, acerb, alert, alter, artel, baler, barye, batty, belay, beryl, betta, blare, blate.

+3 letters: abstractedly, traceability.

+4 letters: bacteriolytic, bathymetrical, creditability, obstetrically, resectability.

+5 letters: erythroblastic, extractability, predictability, rectifiability, respectability, stretchability.