Synonyms for proverb
Definitions
- n. 1
A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
Near-synonyms: aphorism, maxim, adage, saw, saying, apothegm, byword, paroemia, sententia (Latin)
Related words
- Word family
- proverbial proverbize
Forms
- Plural
- proverbs → adages, aphorisms, maxims, truisms…
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The proverb or adage gives homely truth in condensed, practical form, the adage often pictorial. Both the proverb and the adage, but especially the latter, are thought of as ancient and widely known.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- maxim He worked in his favorite maxim.
- adage There must always be two parties to a quarrel, says the old adage.
- aphorism "Time is money" is very true as an aphorism.
- truism To say that technology changes rapidly is to utter a truism.
By length
- 3 letters
- saw1
- 5 letters
- motto2, maxim2, gnome1, adage2, axiom3
- 6 letters
- saying2, dictum2, truism3, byword2
- 7 letters
- bromide2, precept2
- 8 letters
- aphorism4, apothegm, paroemia
- 9 letters
- platitude3
- 10 letters
- apophthegm
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (motto2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- proverbe
- Italiano
- proverbio
- Español
- adagio
- Deutsch
- Sprichwort
- Català
- proverbi