CREDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credo mean? 

• CREDO (noun)
  The noun CREDO has 1 sense:

1. any system of principles or beliefs

  Familiarity information: CREDO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any system of principles or beliefs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

credo; creed

Hypernyms ("credo" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credo"):

testament (a profession of belief)

Athanasian Creed (a Christian profession of faith)

 Context examples 

Pass the word that the men kneel, and that the under-officers repeat to them the pater, the ave, and the credo.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)