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Definition: Slogan |
SloganNoun1. A favorite saying of a sect or political group. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slogan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Note: Slogan \Slo"gan\, noun. [from Gaelic expression sluagh-ghairm, i.e., an army cry; sluagh army gairm call, calling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | Today the -- is the battle cry of the advertiser, embodying his selling theme. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Slogan A war-cry, a Scotch gathering-cry. (Anglo-Saxon, sleán, to fight, pret. slog; Gaelic, sluagh-gairm, an army-yell.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Advertising slogans are claimed to be, and often prove to be , the most effective means of drawing attention to one or more aspects of a product. Typically they make claims about being the best quality, providing an important benefit or solution, or being most suitable for the potential customer.At the start of World War I, when modern advertising was in its infancy, a famous poster called on young British men to heed the need expressed by one of Britain's foremost soldiers, Lord Horatio Kitchener, and volunteer to serve their country. The famous slogan "Your Country Needs You" was heard around the world. Still today America uses a variant of this slogan (Uncle Sam needs You, or The Army needs you).
Advertising slogans often play a large part in the interplay between rival companies. An effective slogan usually:
Usually, slogans are created as advertising copy by professional writers among whom writers of serious literature, such as novelists may be found at times. On the other hand slogans often originate as tiebreakers created by "compers" or competition entrants as a means of elimination in trade competitions, often combined with a submitted proof of purchase of the company's product.
- states the main benefits of the product or brand for the potential user or buyer
- implies a distinction between it and other firms' products - of course, within the usual legal constraints
- makes a simple, direct, concise, crisp, and apt statement
- is often witty, if it is required as not all advertising slogans are meant to be witty
- adopts a distinct "personality" of its own
- gives a credible impression of a brand or product
- makes the consumer feel "good"
- makes the consumer feel a desire or need
- is hard to forget - it adheres to one's memory (whether one likes it or not), especially if it is accompanied by mnemonic devices, such as jingles, ditties, pictures or film sequences on televised commercials.
Advertising slogans are subject to ethical constraints and are often viewed with reservations, if not actual misgivings by official bodies, such as the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK, or the European Advertising Standards Alliance who claim to have a responsibility to the public good and whose decision making follows an Advertising Code. Similar organizations exist in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, as well as other countries.
See also :List of advertising slogans, advertising, marketing, promotion
List of Marketing Topics List of Management Topics List of Economics Topics List of Accounting Topics List of Finance Topics List of Advertising Slogans Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Advertising slogan."
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Arbeit macht frei (German: "work liberates") is the cynical slogan that was in place at the entrances of a number of Nazi concentration camps. The slogan can still be seen at several sites, including those at Auschwitz I, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, and the Terezin Ghetto-Camp.External link
- Rudy Brueggemann's Photos of Arbeit Macht Frei slogans at Nazi camps
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arbeit macht frei."
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The following is a list of advertising slogans:
Beverages
- "I Am Canadian" - Molson Canadian beer
- "Fosters - Australian for Beer" - Foster Australian Beer
- "Made in Scotland from girders" - Irn Bru
- "No Nonsense" - John Smith's beer
- "The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous" - Schlitz
- "The Champagne of Bottled Beer" - Miller Beer
- "It's the real thing" - Coca Cola, 1941
- "The pause that refreshes" - Coca Cola, 1929
- "The real thing" - Coca Cola
- "Coke is it" - Coca Cola, 1982
- "You know when you've been Tango'd" - Tango soft drink, 1994, HHCL
- "Dring Barq's. It's Good." - Barq's sarasparilla drink
- "Pepsi - for those who think young" - Pepsi
- "Uh-Huh!" - Diet Pepsi, 1991
- "Lipsmackin' thirstquenchin' acetastin' motivatin' goodbuzzin' cooltalkin' highwalkin' fastlivin' evergivin' coolfizzin' Pepsi" - Pepsi Cola, 1973, Boase Massimi Pollitt
- "Same time tomorrow?" - Diet Pepsi, 1990s
- "The Uncola" - 7-Up, 1973, J Walter Thompson
- "Australians wouldn't give a Castlemaine XXXX for anything else" - Australian Beer
- "Your best bet for a fuller flavour" - Carlin Black Label lager (1980s)
- "After Dark" - Tia Maria
- "Get back your 'oo' with Typhoo" - Typhoo tea
- "Coffee at its best" - Nescafe Gold Blend
- "Like tea used to be" - Yorkshire Tea
- "Probably the best lager in the world" - Carlsberg
- "Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach" - Heineken lager
- "Follow the bear" Hoffmeister lager
- "There's no taste like Stones" - Stones bitter
- "What a refreshing change" - Woodpecker cider
- "Sch... You know who?" - Schweppes, 1962
- "Good to the last drop." - Maxwell House coffee
- "Pure Life" - Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water, 2002 or 2003?
- "We drink all we can. The rest we sell." - Utica Club, 1965, Doyle Dane Bernbach
Communications, Broadcasting, and Publishing
- All the news that's fit to print. - The New York Times, 1896, Direct
- "Seeing small business differently" - SBC Communications
- "Get more" - T-Mobile
- "Your friend in the digital age" - COX Communications
- "It's good to talk" - British Telecom (1990s)
- "We never stop working for you" - Verizon Wireless
- "If it's on, it's in." - Radio Times, MCBD
- "Fair and balanced" - FOX News
- "The most trusted name in news" - CNN
- "Nick is for kids" - Nickelodeon TV channel
- "CTV. Canadian Television" - CTV
- "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world" - WINS Radio, New York, 1965
- "Let your fingers do the walking." - Yellow Pages, 1964, Geers Gross
Electronics
- "Thousands of possibilities. Get yours." - Best Buy
- "See what the future has in store." - Future Shop
- "Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba?" - Toshiba, 1984, Gold Greenlees Trott
- "Neighbour's envy, owner's pride" - Onida TV (India)
- "Is it live, or is it Memorex? "- Memorex video cassettes, 1970s or 1980s on
- "Keeps going and going and going." - Energizer Batteries, began 1980s or 1990s
- "No battery is stronger longer." - Duracell Batteries, 1990s
Computing
- "Intel inside" - Intel
- "e-business solutions" - IBM, 2000s
- "Think different" - Apple Computer
- "Think outside the box" - Apple Computer, 1990s
- "Where do you want to go today?" - Microsoft
- "Acquire, manage and listen" - Apple Computer
- "Rip. Mix. Burn" - Apple Computer
- "[It's] so easy to use, no wonder it's number one" - AOL
- "It's better with the butterfly" - Microsoft (for MSN 8 internet service provider)
- "Welcome to the World Wide Wow" - AOL (play on World Wide Web)
- "Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia" - Wikipedia
- "It's the Internet that logs onto you" - SBC-Yahoo DSL
- "GNU is Not Unix" - Free Software Foundation
Recordings
- "Echo Around the World" - Edison Records
- "Comparison With the Living Artist Reveals No Difference" - Edison Records
- "If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly -- If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King" - King Records
- "Never Scratches" - Lyric Records
- "First with the Hits" - Mercury Records
- "America's Best Record" - Puritan Records
- "Hear What You Like - When You Like" - Rex Records
- "Each Record a Masterpiece" - Van Dyke Records
Fashion
- "Just do it" - Nike, Inc (foot wear), 1988-on, Wieden & Kennedy
- "Maybe she's born with it - maybe it's Maybelline" - Maybelline
- "Children's shoes have far to go." - Start-Rite Shoes, 1945, Stanley Studios
- "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." - Timex, 1956
- "Lifts and separates" - Playtex Cross-Your-Heart bra, 1960s.
Finance
- "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard." -MasterCard
- "VISA - It's everywhere you want to be" - VISA (credit card), 1988, BBDO
- "When E. F. Hutton Talks, People Listen" - E.F. Hutton
- "Merrill-Lynch is Bullish on America" - Merrill-Lynch
- "The Listening Bank" - Midland Bank
- "Because life's complicated enough" - Abbey National
- "The bank that likes to say Yes" - Trustee Savings Bank
- "More human interest" - Washington Mutual
Food
- "57 Varieties" - H. J. Heinz Company
- "A Mars a day helps you work rest and play" - Mars bar
- "A minty bit stronger" - Trebor Mints
- "Beanz Meanz Heinz" - Heinz Baked Beans
- "All because the lady loves Milk Tray" - Milk Tray Chocolate, 1970s
- "Betcha can't eat just one" - Lay's potato chips
- "Breakfast of Champions" - Wheaties, 1935, Blackett-Sample-Gummert (slogan was later on "The Breakfast of Champions", including in the 1990s)
- "Central heating for kids" - Ready Brek porridge
- "Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo" - Rolo confectionary
- "Do you eat the red ones last?" - Smarties, 1970s or 80s on until the early 90s, revived around 2002 or 2003
- "WotalotIgot!" - Smarties, 1961, JWT
- "For mash get Smash" - Smash instant mashed potatoes, 1974, Boase Massimi Pollitt
- "Full of Eastern Promise" - Fry's Turkish Delight
- "Give me a break! Give me a break - break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!" - Kit Kat candy
- "Gotta have my pops!" - Corn Pops breakfast cereal
- "Have a break, have a Kit Kat" - Kit Kat candy
- "I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops" - Coco Pops breakfast cereal
- "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face" - Carl's Jr
- "It can only be Heineken" - Heineken
- "Kid tested. Mother approved." - Kix breakfast cereal
- "Made to make your mouth water" - Opal Fruits
- "Makes Red Blood!" - Grape-Nuts breakfast cereal
- "Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios" - Cheerios breakfast cereal
- "Nowt taken out" - Allinsons bread
- "One two many and you might turn Bertie" - Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts
- "Only Smarties have the answer" - Smarties confectionary
- "Only the best for the Captain's table" - Birdseye
- "Shot from Guns!" - Quaker Puffed Rice
- "Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby?" - Gerber
- "Tell them about the honey, mummy" - Sugar Puffs breakfast cereal
- "The lighter way to enjoy chocolate" - Maltesers
- "The sweet you can eat between meals wothout losing your appetite" - Milky Way
- "They're grrreat!" - Kelloggs Frosties (Frosted Flakes) breakfast cereal
- "Too good to hurry mints" - Murry Mints
- "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife" - Country Life butter
- "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" - Klondike Bar, early 1990s, early 2000s
- "The Freshmaker!" - Mentos
Fast food
- "Have you had your break to day?" - McDonalds
- "I'm lovin it" - McDonald's, in a 2003 international campaign
- "Jack's back" - Jack in the Box fast food resturaunt
- "Put a smile on, put a smile on. Everybody come on, put a smile on" - McDonald's (advertised to children)
- "Put a smile on." - McDonalds Happy Meal, 2001-2002
- "Smile." - McDonalds
- "Think outside the bun." - Taco Bell, late-1990s, early 2000s
- "We love to see you smile" - McDonald's
- "Where's the beef" - Wendy's Restaurants, 1984-, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample
- "Yo-quiero Taco Bell." - Taco Bell, mid-1990s
- "You deserve a break today" - McDonald's
- "You've always got time for Tim Hortons." - Tim Hortons, mid-to-late-1990s-on
- (nah, nah, nah) - McDonalds, sung non-sense words, 2003
- "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken." - Perdue, 1972, Scali, McCabe & Sloves
Household
- "Kills Bugs Dead" - Raid (an insecticide)
- "Quick, Henry, the FLIT!" - Flit insecticide
- "It Beats - as it Sweeps - as it Cleans" - The Hoover vacuum cleaner, 1926
- "Covers The Earth" -- Sherwin Williams paint
- "For hands that do dishes..." - Fairy Liquid
- "It's a lot less bovver than a hover" - Qualcast Concord lawnmowers, 1985, WCRS
- "The appliance of science" - Zanussi, 1981, Geers Gross
- "Put the freshness back" - Shake'n'Vac
- "Kills Germs Dead" - Domestos
Personal Care
- "A totally organic experience" - Clairol Herbal Essences
- "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline" - Maybelline (lipstick, makeup)
- "Does She or Doesn't She? ...Only her Hairdresser Knows for Sure" - Clairol hair dye
- "I never knew you had dandruff" - Head & Shoulders shampoo
- "R-O-L-A-I-D-S spells Relief" - Rolaids (indigestion medicine)
- "Because you're worth it" - L'oreal
- "I liked it so much I bought the company." - Remington shavers
- "For those who like the trade rough" - Travis aftershave
- "It won't let you down" - Sure anti-perspirant
- "Raise your hand if you're sure". - Sure, 1984, Wells, Rich, Greene
- "The Lynx effect" - Lynx deoderant
- "Preparing to be a beautiful lady" - Pear's Soap
- "Good Morning! Have You Used Pear's Soap?" - Pear's Soap
- "It Floats!" - Ivory Soap
- "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent" - Pepsodent, 1956, Foote, Cone & Belding
- "Which twin has the Toni?" - Toni, 1946, Foote, Cone & Belding
Recreation, Entertainment, and Travel
- "The happiest place on Earth" - Disneyland
- "Get out there" - Royal Caribbean cruise lines
- "We love having you here" - Hampton Inn
- "Where wonders never cease" - Alton Towers
- "It's so bracing" - Skegness
- "Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it." - Thomas Cook, 1984, Wells, Rich, Greene
- "Serving All our Community. Brampton's Arts Group." - Visual Arts Brampton, 2003, Alphie and Bette
Tobacco
- "Not a Cough in a Carload" -- Old Gold Cigarettes
- "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet" -- Lucky Strike Cigarettes
- "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" -- Virginia Slims Cigarettes
- "Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me!" -- Doral Cigarettes
- "Doctors Recommend Phillip Morris" -- Phillip Morris tobacco products
- "I'd Walk a Mile for A Camel" -- Camel Cigarettes
- "Camels Soothe Your T-Zone" -- Camel Cigarettes
- "More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other Cigarette" -- Camel Cigarettes
- "Just What the Doctor Ordered" -- L&M Cigarettes
- "You're never alone with a Strand" -- Strand Cigarettes
Transport
- "Getting There Is Half The Fun" - Cunard Line
- "The world's favourite airline" - British Airways
- "Fly the friendly skies" - United Airlines, 1966-, Leo Burnett
- "We Really Move Our Tail For You" - Continental Airline
- "We're getting there" - much ridiculed British Rail slogan
- "See What Brown Can Do For You" - UPS
Cars
- "Ask the Man who Owns One" - Packard]], 1925, Austin Bement
- "Sooner or later, you'll own Generals" - General Tires Corp
- "The ultimate driving machine" - BMW
- "Sheer driving pleasure" - BMW
- "Time to Re-Tire" - Fisk tires
- "Like a rock" - Chevrolet
- "We are professional grade" - GMC Truck
- "Right service. Right price." - Meineke
- "Once driven, forever smitten" - Vauxhall Motors (1980s)
- "If only everything in life was as reliabale as a Volkswagen"
- "Think Small" - Volkswagen, 1962, Doyle Dane Bernbach
- "Drivers wanted." - Volkswagen, 1995, Arnold Communications
- "Vorsprung durch Technik" - Audi
- "The lion leaps from strength to strength" - Peugeot (1980s)
- "You can with a Nissan"
- "The car in front is a Toyota"
- "The Real Thing" - Ford Australia 1970s
Petroleum
- "You Can Trust Your Car to the Man Who Wears The Star" -- Texaco Service Stations
- "Put a tiger in your tank" -- Esso
- "You can be sure of Shell" - Shell Oil, 1982
Government
- An army of one. - United States Army, 2001
- Be all you can be. - US Army, 1981-2001, N. W. Ayer
- The Army National Guard, You Can. - US Army National Guard, in use around 2001-2003 if not more years than that.
- I love New York - New York City, 1977-on, Wells, Rich, Greene
Miscellaneous
- It's a Skoda. Honest. - Skoda, 2000, Fallon
- Reassuringly expensive. - Stella Artois, 1981, Lowe Howard-Spink
- Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. - Peter Paul Mounds, 1953, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample
- The future's bright. The future's Orange. - Orange, 1996, WCRS
- What we want is Watney's. - Watney's
See also
- slogan
- advertising slogan
- advertising
- promotion
- marketing
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- list of business law topics
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- list of business ethics, political economy, and philosophy of business topics
- list of business theorists
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- list of corporate leaders
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of advertising slogans."
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A slogan is a memorable phrase used in political or commercial context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose.A political slogan generally expresses a goal or aim ("Workers of the world, unite"), whereas an advertising slogan is most often intended as a memorable identifier ("The real thing").
Slogans vary from the written and the visual, to the chanted and the vulgar. Often their simple, rhetorical nature leaves little room for detail, and as such serve perhaps more as a social expression of unified purpose, rather than a projection for an intended audience.
Slogans are attractive particularly in the modern age of informational bombardment from numerous media sources (see also soundbite, meme).
Slogans are a core part of propaganda (see also Newspeak).
"Slogan" comes from sluagh-ghairm (pronounced slogorm), Scottish Gaelic for "battle-cry" , as in the popular movie Braveheart.
- List of political slogans
- List of advertising slogans
- Advertising slogan
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slogan."
Synonyms: SloganSynonyms: catchword (n), motto (n), shibboleth (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slogan |
| English words defined with "slogan": battle cry ♦ chant, cry ♦ intone ♦ rallying cry ♦ Slug-horn ♦ war cry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slogan": Dell Computer Corporation ♦ Live Free Or Die! ♦ sig quote ♦ VAX ♦ Wall, Weeble. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Slogan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (catchword, watchword), French (catchword, cry, slogan, tag), German (catchphrase, slogan), Indonesian (catchword), Italian (catch-phrase, slogan), Portuguese (punch line, slogan), Romanian (slogan), Serbo-Croatian (slogan), Swedish (slogan), Turkish (battle cry, catch-phrase, catcword, cry, shibboleth, slogan). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Isn't that the slogan for Euro-Disney (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Is that gonna be your new Hammerman's slogan, Dad (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) Let's make that our slogan. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I'm sick of being a trademark married to a slogan. (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht) Well, at least you have your new slogan. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slogan (1969) | |
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![]() | Closeup view of the ship's port side bridge wing, showing her insignia, circa 1943-44. The design is based on the slogan of Cabot's first Commanding Officer, Captain Malcolm F. Schoeffel: "Up Mohawks, At 'Em!". "Mohawk" was the ship's voice radio call sign at the time. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | At Pearl Harbor, soon after the end of her third war patrol, circa 7 February 1943. Her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton, is on the open bridge, in right center. Officer standing at left appears to be the Executive Officer, Lieutenant Richard H. O'Kane. Note: broom lashed to the periscope head, indicating a "clean sweep" of enemy targets encountered; pennant bearing the slogan "Shoot the sunza bitches" and eight small flags, representing claimed sinkings of two Japanese warships and six merchant vessels. Note that the forward radar mast, mounted in front of the periscope shears, has been censored out of this photograph. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Slogan of the French Revolution and the name of leader Jean Tatoune on building wall in Gonaïves, Haiti. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Anti-Nazi slogan, "We shall force them to their knees," written in German on garden wall, Athens, Greece. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Patriotic slogan in ice cream advertising near Utica, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Case display with slogan "Better light for better sight". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Believe" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "A bumper sticker that reads "Believe" which is the cities new slogan concerning the mayor & the police's efforts to clean up drugs in the inner city." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Calvin Coolidge | Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Chile | Under the slogan "Revolution in Liberty," the Frei administration embarked on far-reaching social and economic programs, particularly in education, housing, and agrarian reform, including rural unionization of agricultural workers. (references) |
Trade | Poland | Some U.S. companies have found that using the English language somewhere on the packaging (e.g. product name, promotional slogan) helps give the product additional prestige or value in the eyes of the Polish consumer. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WALL :STREET:, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Even the great and good Andrew Carnegie has made his profession of faith in the matter. Carnegie the dauntless has uttered his call To battle: "The brokers are parasites all!" Carnegie, Carnegie, you'll never prevail; Keep the wind of your slogan to belly your sail, Go back to your isle of perpetual brume, Silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume: Ben Lomond is calling his son from the fray -- Fly, fly from the region of Wall Street away! While still you're possessed of a single baubee (I wish it were pledged to endowment of me) 'Twere wise to retreat from the wars of finance Lest its value decline ere your credit advance. For a man 'twixt a king of finance and the sea, Carnegie, Carnegie, your tongue is too free! Anonymus Bink |
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| "Slogan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slogan" is used about 472 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 472 | 12,530 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "slogan": slogan-filled, slogan-makers, slogan-reading, slogan-spouting. | |
Ending with "slogan": pop-slogan, war-slogan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
slogan | 826 | trademark slogan | 18 |
safety slogan | 262 | slogan sports | 17 |
advertising slogan | 156 | motivational slogan | 17 |
campaign slogan | 86 | marketing slogan | 17 |
t shirt slogan | 73 | football slogan | 16 |
funny slogan | 55 | beer slogan | 16 |
company slogan | 55 | hockey slogan | 15 |
slogan generator | 47 | school slogan | 15 |
business slogan | 42 | funny t shirt slogan | 15 |
commercial slogan | 32 | election slogan | 14 |
famous slogan | 31 | aa slogan | 14 |
catchy slogan | 27 | in life more slogan taste | 13 |
product slogan | 27 | cola rc slogan | 12 |
state slogan | 27 | political slogan | 12 |
condom slogan | 25 | slogan team | 12 |
ad slogan | 25 | baseball slogan | 12 |
real estate slogan | 23 | eat life slogan up | 12 |
free slogan | 22 | bumper sticker slogan | 12 |
coca cola slogan | 21 | slogan maker | 12 |
quality slogan | 20 | customer service slogan | 12 |
cow its slogan | 19 | safety slogan free | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "slogan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kushtrim (war cry). (various references) | |
Arabic | نداء الحرب, صرخة الحرب (battle cry), الشعار (catchword, emblem), شعار (banner, brand, countersign, device, emblem, motto, sign, tag, watchword). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мото (motto, posy), лозунг (shibboleth, war cry, watchword, word), боен зов (war cry), девиз (device, motto, posy, word). (various references) | |
Chinese | 標語 (poster), 口號 (catchphrase), 口号 (Epithet). (various references) | |
Czech | heslo (catchword, combination, entry, heading, headword, motto, parole, password, watch word, watchword, word). (various references) | |
Dutch | leuze (motto, watchword), leus (motto, watchword), devies (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Esperanto | devizo (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Faeroese | loysnarorð (motto, watchword), gjaldoyraávísing (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Farsi | نعره (Yell), ورد (Abracadabra, Jaber), تکیه کلام , خروش (Cry, Roar), ارم , شعار (Catch, Device, Emblem, Motto). (various references) | |
Finnish | tunnussana (parole, password, watchword), iskusana (catchword). (various references) | |
French | slogan. (various references) | |
Frisian | devys (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
German | Schlagwort (byword, catchphrase, catchword, headword), Werbespruch (advertising slogan), Wahlspruch (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Greek | ρητό (adage, byword, dictum, motto, oration, saw, saying), σύνθημα (catchword, cue, password, sign, signal, watch word, watchword), πολεμική κραυγή (battle cry, war cry). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מימרה (adage, catchword, dictum, expression, motto, phrase, proverb, saying), אמרת כנף (catchword, motto), סיסמה (countersign, motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szlogen (buzzword). (various references) | |
Indonesian | semboyan (catchword, motto). (various references) | |
Italian | slogan (catch-phrase). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金看板 (noble cause, signboard with gold or gilt lettering), 旗標 (banner), 旗印 (banner, emblem, insignia), 標語 (catchword, motto), 御題目 (a Nichiren prayer), スローウイルス感染症 (dull person, slope, slot, slow virus infection, slow-motion, slow-motion video, slow-moving person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おだいもく (a Nichiren prayer), きんかんばん (noble cause, signboard with gold or gilt lettering), ひょうご (catchword, critical remarks, grades, motto), スローガン , はたじるし (banner, emblem, insignia). (various references) | |
Korean | 구호 (Relieving). (various references) | |
Manx | slieh gerrym, fockle arrey (catchword, watchword). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oganslay.(various references) | |
Polish | zasada postępowania (motto, watchword), waluta (motto, watchword), dewiza (motto, watchword). (various references) | |
Portuguese | lema (lemma, motto, watchword), divisa (badge, chevron, emblem, landmark, motto, stripe, watchword). (various references) | |
Romanian | strigãt de luptã, slogan, lozincã (catchphrase, catchword, watchword), devizã (device, motto, quotation, standard), chemare (appeal, call, calling, challenge, convocation, cry, halloo, invitation, invocation, shout, summons, vocation). (various references) | |
Russian | лозунг (bumper sticker, catchword, cry, motto, war-cry, watchword). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slogan, parola (motto, password), geslo (motto), deviza (motto). (various references) | |
Spanish | eslogan. (various references) | |
Swedish | slogan, slagord (catchword, catch-word, cry). (various references) | |
Thai | คำโฆษณา, คำขวัญ. (various references) | |
Turkish | slogan (battle cry, catch-phrase, catcword, cry, shibboleth), savaş çığlığı (war cry), reklâm sloganı, parola (catchword, cipher, countersign, motto, parole, password, shibboleth, watchword, word). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юygar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слоган, заклик (appeal, ban, call, exhortation, watchword), лозунг (battle cry, catchword), бойовий клич (banner-cry, battle cry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slogan": sloganeer, sloganeered, sloganeering, sloganeers, sloganize, sloganized, sloganizes, sloganizing, slogans. (additional references) | |
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"Slogan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleggan, Elogar, Estoban, shogan, sloag, slogqn, sluggen, Sogna, solgar, Solignac, soogan, stogen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slogan" (pronounced slō"gun) |
| 5 | -l ō" g u n | Logan. |
| 4 | -ō" g u n | Bogan, Brogan, shogun. |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bandwagon, bargain, Brannigan, cardigan, collagen, dragon, gorgon, hooligan, jargon, Lagan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, Mulligan, organ, pagan, shenanigan, snapdragon, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: logans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: agons, along, gaols, glans, goals, loans, logan, longs, salon, slang, solan. | |
-2 letters: agon, also, gals, gaol, goal, goas, lags, lang, loan, logs, long, nags, naos, nogs, sago, sang, slag, slog, snag, snog, sola, song. | |
-3 letters: ago, als, gal, gan, gas, goa, gos, lag, las, log, nag, nog, nos, ons, sag, sal, sol, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: analogs, flagons, gallons, kalongs, lagoons, lanugos, longans, slogans. | |
+2 letters: aglycons, allonges, angulose, angulous, antilogs, bolognas, clangors, congeals, dongolas, galleons, galloons, gasolene, gasoline, glasnost, glossina, goldarns, gondolas, granolas, halogens, isogonal, languors, lassoing, loadings, loanings, longways, mangolds, salvoing, shoaling, shogunal, skoaling, solacing, solating, tangelos. | |
+3 letters: absolving, aglycones, alongside, amylogens, analogies, analogist, analogous, analogues, anglepods, assoiling, bungalows, clangours, collagens, diagonals, elongates, flagstone, flamingos, flexagons, gallstone, ganglions, gangplows, gantlopes, gasolenes, gasolines, gasolinic, gelations, geraniols, gladstone, glasnosts, glissando, gloamings, glossinas, gloxinias, glucagons, golcondas, gonfalons, granulose, hooligans, hyalogens, intaglios, isogonals, isolating, jargonels, kaoliangs, langouste, legations, ligations, loathings, logicians, longboats, longhairs, longhands, longheads, magnolias, mangonels, nostalgia, nostalgic, octangles, onslaught, originals, pangolins, pignolias, plainsong, regionals, sallowing, slaloming, sloganeer, sloganize, solvating, synagogal, tagalongs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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