proverb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.

   “Near-synonyms: aphorism, maxim, adage, saw, saying, apothegm, byword, paroemia, sententia (Latin)”

2. isim Any commonly used turn of phrase expressing a metaphor, simile, or descriptive epithet.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

   “Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations.”

5. isim A drama exemplifying a proverb.
6. fiil To write or utter proverbs.
7. fiil To name in, or as, a proverb.

   “Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"”

8. fiil To provide with a proverb.

   “I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.”