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catchword means: a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkat͡ʃwɜːd/Part of speech nounSorted accdhortwStarts with CEnds with D0 clues

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a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

From catch + word.

“Near-synonym: custos”
“One could give a long list of such intellectual fashions and catchwords which in the course of two or three generations have in turn dominated the thinking of the intellectual.”

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