Usually means: Concise statement expressing a truth.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. aphorism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aphorism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aphorism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aphorism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aphorism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aphorism, aphorism: Wordnik
  7. aphorism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aphorism: Wiktionary
  9. aphorism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aphorism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aphorism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. aphorism: Dictionary.com
  13. aphorism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aphorism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Aphorism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aphorism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aphorism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aphorism: Rhymezone
  19. aphorism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aphorism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. aphorism: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. aphorism: Free Dictionary
  23. aphorism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. aphorism: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. aphorism: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. aphorism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Aphorism: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. APHORISM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aphorism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aphorism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aphorism: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See aphorisming as well.)

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noun:  A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
verb:  To speak or write aphorisms.

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