English-Thai Dictionary

adage

N ภาษิต  คติพจน์  สุภาษิต  saying pha-sid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADAGE

n.[L. adagium, or adagio ] A proverb; an old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a wise observation handed down from antiquity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ADAGE

Ad "age, n. Etym: [F. adage, fr. L. adagium; ad + the root of L. aio I say. ]

 

Defn: An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not " wait upon "I would, " Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak.

 

Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

adage

ad age |ˈadij ˈædɪʤ | ▶noun a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth: the old adage “out of sight out of mind. ” ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin adagium ‘saying, ’ based on an early form of aio ‘I say. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

adage

adage |ˈadɪdʒ | ▶noun a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin adagium ‘saying ’, based on an early form of aio ‘I say ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

adage

adage noun I should have remembered the old adage 'look before you leap': saying, maxim, axiom, proverb, aphorism, saw, dictum, byword, precept, motto, truism, platitude, cliché, apophthegm, commonplace.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

adage

adage noun it is vital for every pilot to remember the old adage ‘safety first ’: saying, maxim, axiom, proverb, aphorism, saw, dictum, precept, epigram, epigraph, motto, truism, platitude, cliché, commonplace; words of wisdom, pearls of wisdom; expression, phrase, formula, slogan, quotation; rare apophthegm, gnome.

 

French Dictionary

adage

adage n. m. nom masculin Sentence populaire, généralement ancienne. : Le trois fait le mois est un adage que cite souvent Francine Grimaldi.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

adage

ad age /ǽdɪdʒ /名詞 C ｟やや古 ｠格言, 金言, ことわざ .