adage

Meaning of adage

noun
  1. 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

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:

proverb, saw, byword

Meaning a short, pithy, commonly known expression which generally offers advice or wisdom:

saying

Meaning a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct:

maxim

Meaning a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true:

axiom

Meaning a pithy observation which contains a general truth:

aphorism

Meaning a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle:

dictum

Meaning a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought:

precept

Meaning a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way:

epigram

Meaning an inscription on a building, statue, or coin:

epigraph

Meaning a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals of an individual, family, or institution:

motto

Meaning a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting:

truism

Meaning a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful:

platitude

Meaning a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought:

cliché

Meaning a usual or ordinary thing:

commonplace

Meaning a word or phrase, especially an idiomatic one, used to convey an idea:

expression

Meaning a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause:

phrase

Meaning a mathematical relationship or rule expressed in symbols:

formula

Meaning a short and striking or memorable phrase used in advertising:

slogan

Meaning a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker:

quotation

Meaning a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism:

apophthegm

Meaning a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground:

gnome

Translation of adage

Anagrams of adage

Agade

Words that rhyme with adage

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