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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

grito de guerra

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈɡɾi.to de ˈɡe.ra

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Rallying-call/ˈræl.i.ɪŋ ˌkɔːl/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La consigna se convirtió en un grito de guerra para los manifestantes."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A signal, summons, or passionate appeal intended to unite people to take concerted action.

    "The politician's speech served as a powerful rallying-call for environmental reform."
  2. 2

    A motto, slogan, or phrase used to inspire and motivate a group during a struggle or campaign.

    "Freedom and justice became the enduring rallying-call of the revolution."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'rally', stemming from Old French 'rallier' (reunite, reassemble, from Latin 're-' and 'alligare', to bind), combined with 'call' from Old English 'ceallian'. Originally used in military contexts to summon scattered troops back to formation, the term evolved metaphorically to describe any passionate appeal meant to unite people for a common political, social, or moral cause.

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