rallying cry

Questions about rallying cry

What does rallying cry mean?

rallying cry means "a slogan used to rally support for a cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for rallying cry?

Close synonyms include war cry, battle cry, cry, watchword, war cry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rallying cry a common word?

rallying cry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.