Recommendation vs Motto - What's the difference?
recommendation | motto | Related terms |
(heraldry) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
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.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Recommendation is a related term of motto.
As nouns the difference between recommendation and motto
is that recommendation is an act of recommending while motto is motto.motto
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... Serve God, and be cheerful.
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}