proverb
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
proverb (plural proverbs)
- A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
- A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
- Bible, John xvi. 29
- His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
- Bible, John xvi. 29
- A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37
- Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations.
- Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37
- A drama exemplifying a proverb.
- (phrase expressing a basic truth) adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, saying, sententia
- See also Thesaurus:saying
- French: proverbe
- German: Sprichwort, Denkspruch, Redensart; (uncommon) Proverbium
- Italian: proverbio
- Portuguese: provérbio
- Russian: посло́вица
- Spanish: proverbio, refrán, paremia
proverb (proverbs, present participle proverbing; past and past participle proverbed)
- To write or utter proverbs.
- To name in, or as, a proverb.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 203-205:
- Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 203-205:
- To provide with a proverb.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
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