adage
Meaning of adage
noun
- a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
the old adage ‘out of sight out of mind’
mid 16th century: from French, from Latin adagium ‘saying’, based on an early form of aio ‘I say’.
Information about adage
- It is a name.
- The plural form of adage is: adages.
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Hyphenation of adage
adage
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- adage is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
adage synonyms
Meaning proverb:
Meaning a short, pithy, commonly known expression which generally offers advice or wisdom:
Meaning a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct:
Meaning a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true:
Meaning a pithy observation which contains a general truth:
Meaning a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle:
Meaning a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought:
Meaning a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way:
Meaning an inscription on a building, statue, or coin:
Meaning a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals of an individual, family, or institution:
Meaning a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting:
Meaning a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful:
Meaning a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought:
Meaning a usual or ordinary thing:
Meaning a word or phrase, especially an idiomatic one, used to convey an idea:
Meaning a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause:
Meaning a mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols:
Meaning a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising:
Meaning a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker:
Meaning a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism:
Meaning a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground:
Translation of adage
- Italian: adagio
- Portuguese: adágio
- German: Sprichwort
- Spanish: adagio
- French: adage
Anagrams of adage
Words that rhyme with adage
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