adages
Meaning of adages
plural 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 adages
- It is a name.
- The singular form of adages is: adage.
- Languages in which adages is used:
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Hyphenation of adages
adages
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- adages is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
adages synonyms
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 short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice:
Meaning a pithy observation which contains a general truth:
Meaning a hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement:
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:
Words that rhyme with adages
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