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Adage

Adage Meaning & Definition
Adage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adage?

[n] a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Synonyms | Synonyms for Adage: byword | proverb | saw

Related Terms | Find terms related to Adage: ana | analects | aphorism | apothegm | axiom | byword | catchword | collected sayings | current saying | dictate | dictum | distich | epigram | expression | gnome | golden saying | maxim | moral | mot | motto | oracle | phrase | pithy saying | precept | prescript | proverb | proverbial saying | proverbs | saw | saying | sentence | sententious expression | sloka | stock saying | sutra | teaching | text | verse | wisdom | wisdom literature | wise saying | witticism | word | words of wisdom

See Also | expression | locution | saying

Adage In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad"age\, n. [F. adage, fr. L. adagium; ad + the root of L. aio I say.] An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting ``I dare not'' wait upon ``I would,'' Like the poor cat i' the adage. --Shak. Syn: Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See {Axiom}.

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