adage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæ.dɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
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 606515358, [Act I, scene vii], page 135:
- Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
Related terms
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁eǵ- (0 c, 9 e)
Translations
old saying
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Further reading
adage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gadea
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adagium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.daʒ/
Audio (file)
Noun
adage m (plural adages)
- adage
Further reading
- “adage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.