Usually means: Concise, traditional sayings expressing wisdom.
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  1. proverbs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Proverbs, Proverbs, proverbs: Merriam-Webster
  3. Proverbs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Proverbs: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Proverbs: Vocabulary.com
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  7. proverbs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Proverbs, proverbs: Wiktionary
  9. Proverbs: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Proverbs: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Proverbs: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. proverbs: Dictionary.com
  13. proverbs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Proverbs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Proverbs: Rhymezone
  16. proverbs: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. proverbs: FreeDictionary.org
  18. proverbs: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Proverbs)

▸ noun:  A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.

Similar:
byword, adage, saw, Psalms, Obadiah, Amos, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, more...

Opposite:
antiproverbs, contraproverbs, counterproverbs

Phrases:
english proverbs, Book of Proverbs, proverbs book of, Netherlandish Proverbs, Proverbs 31, more...

Adjectives:
many, old, popular, english, american, african, few, chinese, several, common, russian



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Similar:
byword, adage, saw, Psalms, Obadiah, Amos, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, more...

Opposite:
antiproverbs, contraproverbs, counterproverbs

Phrases:
english proverbs, Book of Proverbs, proverbs book of, Netherlandish Proverbs, Proverbs 31, Russian proverbs, Sinhala idioms and proverbs, more...

Adjectives:
many, old, popular, english, american, african, few, chinese, several, common, russian



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