Associations to the word «Mantra»

Wiktionary

MANTRA, noun. (Hinduism) The hymn portions of the Vedas; any passage of these used as a prayer.
MANTRA, noun. A phrase repeated to assist concentration during meditation, originally in Hinduism.
MANTRA, noun. (by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated.

Dictionary definition

MANTRA, noun. A commonly repeated word or phrase; "she repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra".
MANTRA, noun. (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats