saying
NounUS[sey-ing]/ˈseɪɪŋ/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)sayings
- a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations“pardon the expression”Synonyms: expressionlocutionType of speech, speech communicationKinds ambiguity, motto, proverb, maxim, anatomical reference, tongue twister, epigram, southernism, agrapha, calque +9 more
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Translations
Noun proverb or maxim
- Spanish
- proverbio
- French
- dicton
- German
- Sprichwort
- Italian
- detto
- Portuguese
- ditado
- Turkish
- atasözü
- Russian
- погово́рка pogovórka
- Arabic
- قَوْل qawl
- Chinese
- 谚语 yànyǔ
- Japanese
- 格言 kakugen
21 more languages
- Dutch
- spreekwoord
- Polish
- powiedzenie
- Swedish
- ordspråk
- Greek
- παροιμία paroimía
- Korean
- 속담 sokdam
- Indonesian
- pepatah
- Vietnamese
- câu nói
- Hungarian
- közmondás
- Portuguese (PT)
- ditado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 諺語 yànyǔ
- Catalan
- dita
- Czech
- přísloví
- Esperanto
- sentenco
- Finnish
- sanonta
- Romanian
- proverb
- Serbo-Croatian
- izreka
- Slovak
- príslovie
- Swahili
- msemo
- Walloon
- dijhêye
- Welsh
- dywediad
- Yiddish
- שפּריכוואָרט shprikhvort
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Say′ing noun
That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.
Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.— John Milton
Synonyms: Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm; saw; proverb; byword.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54