adage
31Adage (expression) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Adage. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Adage (expression) », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Un adage est une énonciation courte mais mémorable qui tient un certain fait important …
32Adage (ballet) — En danse classique, l’adage est une suite de mouvements amples exécutés sur un tempo lent. Le mot, emprunté à l italien adagio, apparaît vers 1820 dans les théories développées par Carlo Blasis, qui préconise des mouvements liés, recherchant le… …
33adage — noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin adagium, from ad + agium (akin to aio I say); akin to Greek ē he said Date: 1513 a saying often in metaphorical form that embodies a common observation …
34adage — adagial /euh day jee euhl/, adj. /ad ij/, n. a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb. [1540 50; < F < L adagium, equiv. to ad AD + ag (s. of aio I say) + ium IUM] * * * ▪ folk literature a saying, often… …
35adage — Synonyms and related words: ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, expression, gnome, golden saying, maxim, moral, mot, motto, oracle, phrase, pithy… …
36adage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. proverb, saw, saying, aphorism, motto, maxim. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. aphorism, saying, maxim; see proverb , saying . See Synonym Study at saying . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n.… …
37adage — ad|age [ ædıdʒ ] noun count a well known phrase that says something about life and human experience …
38adage — ad·age || ædɪdÊ’ n. proverb, maxim, traditional saying …
39adage — [ adɪdʒ] noun a proverb or short statement that expresses a general truth. Origin C16: from Fr., from L. adagium saying , based on an early form of aio I say …
40adage — n. Proverb, saying, saw, dictum, aphorism, apothegm, maxim, by word, sententious precept …
