Usually means: Phrase expressing a guiding principle.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word motto:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. motto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. motto: Merriam-Webster
  3. motto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. motto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. motto: Collins English Dictionary
  6. motto: Vocabulary.com
  7. Motto, motto: Wordnik
  8. motto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. motto: Wiktionary
  10. motto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. motto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Motto, motto: Dictionary.com
  13. motto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. motto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Motto (disambiguation), Motto, The Motto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Motto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. motto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. motto: Rhymezone
  19. Motto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. motto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. motto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. motto: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. motto: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. motto: FreeDictionary.org

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Motto: Numismatic Dictionary
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motto: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MOTTO: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. motto: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. motto, the motto: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motto: Coin Collecting

(Note: See mottoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A personal slogan.
noun:  (heraldry) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
noun:  A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
noun:  (obsolete) A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
verb:  (intransitive) To compose mottos.

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