Usually means: Wise sayings expressing general truths.
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  1. adages: Merriam-Webster
  2. adages: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adages: Vocabulary.com
  4. Adages, adages: Wordnik
  5. adages: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. adages: Wiktionary
  7. adages: Dictionary.com
  8. adages: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Adages: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Adages: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adage)

▸ noun:  An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
▸ noun:  An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
▸ Also see adage


Opposite:
maxims, aphorisms, proverbs

Adjectives:
old, such, many, popular, favorite, wise, ancient, few, moral, several, familiar



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Opposite:
maxims, aphorisms, proverbs

Adjectives:
old, such, many, popular, favorite, wise, ancient, few, moral, several, familiar




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