- mantra - a commonly repeated word or phrase; "she repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra"
--1 is a kind of motto, slogan, catchword, shibboleth
- mantra - (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
--2 is a kind of sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
- mantra - (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns