Thesaurus: proverb

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1. n. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.
2. n. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
3. n. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
4. n. A drama exemplifying a proverb.
5. v. t. To name in, or as, a proverb.
6. v. t. To provide with a proverb.
7. v. i. To write or utter proverbs.
8. n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
9. 1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. John xvi. 29. 3. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference. Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. Deut. xxviii. 37. 4. A drama exemplifying a proverb. Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims. Syn. -- Maxim; aphorism; apothegm; adage; saw. 1. To name in, or as, a proverb. [R.] Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool Milton. 2. To provide with a proverb. [R.] I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. Shak. To write or utter proverbs. [R.]
10. To write or utter proverbs. [R.]
11. n:100 n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people