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Meanings of proverb in English

Portuguese
adágio
Catalan
adagi
Spanish
adagio

A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.

        adágio
        Russian
        народная мудрость
        Portuguese
        provérbio
        Spanish
        dicho
        Catalan
        refranys

        Saying that gives advice, usually as a metaphor.

              народная мудрость

              A widely known, fixed sentence, that expresses a maxim or a wisdom in a short and concise way.

                    Usage of proverb in English
                    1
                    Then the idea of durableness is thus expressed in a Wiltshire proverb:-
                    The Folk-lore of Plants
                    2
                    The 'if' in verse 31 weakens the strong assertion of the proverb.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
                    3
                    And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
                    The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
                    4
                    The eloquence of the last named was a proverb in his day.
                    Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
                    5
                    The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
                    The Woman's Bible
                    6
                    For I have never given in to that ancient and much-praised proverb:
                    Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
                    7
                    I do not believe the first part of the proverb, but it.
                    Study and Stimulants / Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics ...
                    8
                    The uncertainty of the law under these systems has become a proverb.
                    An Essay on the Trial By Jury
                    9
                    The proverb is that truth lies at the bottom of a well.
                    The Heather-Moon
                    10
                    Dear friend, as the old proverb has it, deceit lurks in generalities.
                    Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Corinthians, Galatians, a...
                    11
                    As the proverb well says: Beware the anger of a patient man.
                    Capitals / A Primer of Information about Capitalization with som...
                    12
                    But, as the proverb says, with the disease God sends the remedy.
                    The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
                    13
                    Isn't there a Central Galaxy proverb about gratitude that I once heard?
                    Foundation and Empire
                    14
                    Again the truth of that humane old proverb came home to me:
                    The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
                    15
                    William chose to accept the phrase as a proverb, not a compliment.
                    The irish devil
                    16
                    Man made the town, says the proverb, and God made the country.
                    Post-Prandial Philosophy
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                    Proverb through the time
                    Proverb across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common