Usually means: General rules guiding behavior, conduct.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. maxims: Merriam-Webster
  2. maxims: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Maxims, maxims: Vocabulary.com
  4. Maxim's, Maxims, maxims: Wordnik
  5. maxims: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Maxims, maxims: Wiktionary
  7. maxims: Dictionary.com
  8. maxims: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Maxim's, Maxims (Old English poems), Maxims: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Maxims: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maxims: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maxims: Law.com Dictionary
  2. maxims: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maxims: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Maxims)

▸ noun:  "Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry.


Opposite:
paradoxes, contradictions, antitheses

Types:
adages, proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, precepts, more...

Phrases:
Delphic maxims, Maxims of equity, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, more...

Adjectives:
moral, general, such, political, fundamental, certain, old, few, legal, ethical, wise



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Opposite:
paradoxes, contradictions, antitheses

Types:
adages, proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, precepts, more...

Phrases:
Delphic maxims, Maxims of equity, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, more...

Adjectives:
moral, general, such, political, fundamental, certain, old, few, legal, ethical, wise




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