adage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
adage (plural adages)
- An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
- Synonyms: proverb, colloquialism, apophthegm; see also Thesaurus:saying
- An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
- Synonym: old saw
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135:
- Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
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Translations[edit]
old saying
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin adagium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
adage m (plural adages)
Further reading[edit]
- “adage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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