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It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
Gordon Bethune

Meaning of "adage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADAGE

Via Old French from Latin adagium; related to āio I say.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADAGE

adage  [ˈædɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Adage

An adage is a short, usually philosophical, but memorable saying which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or that has gained some credibility through its long memetic use. It often involves a planning failure such as "don't count your chickens before they hatch" or "don't burn your bridges". Adages may be interesting observations, practical or ethical guidelines, or skeptical comments on life. Some adages are products of folk wisdom that attempt to summarize some form of basic truth; these are generally known as proverbs or bywords. An adage that describes a general rule of conduct is a "maxim". A pithy expression that has not necessarily gained credit through long use, but is distinguished by particular depth or good style is an aphorism, while one distinguished by wit or irony is an epigram. Through overuse, an adage may become a cliché or truism, or be described as an "old saw." Adages coined in modernity are often given proper names and called "laws" in imitation of physical laws, or "principles".

Definition of adage in the English dictionary

The definition of adage in the dictionary is a traditional saying that is accepted by many as true or partially true; proverb.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADAGE


appendage
əˈpɛndɪdʒ
bandage
ˈbændɪdʒ
blindage
ˈblaɪndɪdʒ
bondage
ˈbɒndɪdʒ
brigandage
ˈbrɪɡəndɪdʒ
cordage
ˈkɔːdɪdʒ
frondage
ˈfrɒndɪdʒ
guidage
ˈɡaɪdɪdʒ
headage
ˈhedɪdʒ
husbandage
ˈhʌzbəndɪdʒ
impoundage
ɪmˈpaʊndɪdʒ
pondage
ˈpɒndɪdʒ
poundage
ˈpaʊndɪdʒ
Sandage
ˈsændɪdʒ
unbandage
ʌnˈbændɪdʒ
vagabondage
ˈvæɡəˌbɒndɪdʒ
vendage
ˈvendɪdʒ
windage
ˈwɪndɪdʒ
wordage
ˈwɜːdɪdʒ
yardage
ˈjɑːdɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADAGE

ad valorem tax
ad-lib
ad-libbed
ad-libber
ad-libbing
Ada
adactylous
adagial
adagio
Adam
Adam´s ale
Adam´s apple
Adam´s wine
Adam´s-needle
adamance
adamancy
adamant
adamantean
adamantine
adamantly

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADAGE

Ace Bandage
bavardage
cloudage
crepe bandage
fardage
garlandage
groundage
guardage
hidage
living bandage
marivaudage
roller bandage
scaffoldage
sondage
Tensor bandage

Synonyms and antonyms of adage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adage» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adage

Translation of «adage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADAGE

Find out the translation of adage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

谚语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adagio
570 millions of speakers

English

adage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कहावत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القول المأثور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пословица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adágio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রবচন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pepatah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spruch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

格言
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

속담
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngạn ngư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பழமொழி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

म्हण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atasözü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adagio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powiedzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прислів´я
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zicală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γνωμικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spreekwoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ordspråket
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ordtaket
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADAGE»

The term «adage» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.387 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «adage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «adage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adage

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10 QUOTES WITH «ADAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adage.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
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Gordon Bethune
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
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Chelsea Clinton
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
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Natalie Coughlin
There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.
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Clive Davis
The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.
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Harold W. Dodds
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Jennifer Egan
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Julia Glass
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'
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Glenn Hoddle
The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADAGE»

Discover the use of adage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jumpstarters for Figurative Language, Grades 4 - 8
Figurative. Language. Warm-ups: adage. name/Date name/Date aDage 11 aDage 12 these two adages have the opposite meaning. On your own paper, write which one you think is true and why. “Earlyto bed, earlyto rise, makes a man  ...
Jane Heitman, 2008
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Didactic Essays: From a Piece of Dark Matter, Somewhere in ...
Everybody likes to use this adage, but nobody ever believes it. Therefore, here is a more accurate adage to live by: “All men are created equal, but ifyou didn't go to a good school, then you're shit.” Ask not, want not. - This adage is supposed to  ...
Damon Dion Reed, 2012
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Integrated Research in GRID Computing: CoreGRID Integration ...
Adage [7] {Automatic Deployment of Applications in a Grid Environment) is a research project that aims at studying the deployment issues related to multi- middleware applications. One of its originality is to use a generic application description ...
Sergei Gorlatch, Marco Danelutto, 2007
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture
AdAge China, July 4. http://adage.com/china/article.phpParticle_id =461 12. Accessed August 2006. -. 2005b. "Real Winner of Super Girl is Mengniu Dairy." AdAge China, October 10. http://adage.com/china/article.php?article_id = 46903.
Jing Wang, 2009
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A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology
CULTURAL STRUCTURES WITH TWO OBJECTS: BINARY OPPOSITION Consider a simple cultural construct defined through the well-known adage attributed to an old Arabic proverb (Al-Amily 2003): “A friend of a friend is a friend, a friend of ...
David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, 2011
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Java Web Services: Up and Running
... source file such asAdage.java, generates an XML Schema. The utility can be invoked from the command line: % schemagen Adage.java The resulting XML Schema document is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"? > ...
Martin Kalin, 2013
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Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care ...
You can easily avoid the issue if you never use A.D. Assume that a year is after Christ unless it is followed by B. C. ADAGE An adage isn't an adage unless it's old. So "an old adage" is redundant. Worse is the phrase "as the old adage says"  ...
John B. Bremner, 1980
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Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English
Adage. Ni, ado. Not ; used mostly before words with consonant initials. Ni ddeuant, they will not come; nt uxieth er hyny, no matter forthat; ni ym, ni j/tn, nt yn , n> yen, by syncope become ni'm, ni'fn, ni'n, ni'cn. NI t»dd .loeth ni lio. He will hi be ...
William Owen Pughe, 1832
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We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American ...
First, there is a failure to understand the true meaning of the medieval adage: " Whatever is right ought to be law." The medieval man was not thinking of coercive statutes, backed by the state and its police, that would compel the people to do ...
John Courtney Murray, 2005
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Computerworld
Putting an end to a series of lawsuits in the computer-aided design software market, Cadam, Inc., Adage, Inc. and Adra Systems, Inc. announced a settlement last week in which the insurance carrier of Adage and Adra our won AT oun ...

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Packers' Andrew Quarless arrested for firing gun in Miami
Remember the old adage "nothing good happens after the bars close"? It was true for one Packer early this morning. Tweet Share on Twitter ... «Acme Packing Company, Jul 15»
2
Wieden & Kennedy Wins Bud Light in US, Corona Globally
Welcome , Member; Logout · Become a Member · Login · Adage · Creativity · Lookbook · Datacenter · Resources · Events · Jobs · On Campus. «AdAge.com, Jul 15»
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Dodge Unleashes 'Predator' In Theaters, TV, Times Square
Welcome , Member; Logout · Become a Member · Login · Adage · Creativity · Lookbook · Datacenter · Resources · Events · Jobs · On Campus. «AdAge.com, Jul 15»
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What Prince Could (but Probably Doesn't) Mean for the Future of …
Welcome , Member; Logout · Become a Member · Login · Adage · Creativity · Lookbook · Datacenter · Resources · Events · Jobs · On Campus. «AdAge.com, Jul 15»
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Hedge Funds Carlson Capital and Adage Capital Heavily Invest In …
It is interesting that around half of the 315 stock public equity portfolio of Carlson Capital is also held by Adage Capital. At the same time, this is ... «Insider Monkey, Jun 15»
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Ice Bucket Challenge, 'Like a Girl' Take Top Honors in Facebook …
Welcome , Member; Logout · Become a Member · Login. Adage · Creativity · Lookbook · Datacenter · Resources · Events · Jobs · On Campus. «AdAge.com, Jun 15»
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Does Adage Capital's New Move in Slumping Anixter International …
Phil Gross (pictured) and Robert Atchinson's Adage Capital Management recently boosted its stake in Anixter International Inc. (NYSE:AXE) ... «Insider Monkey, Jun 15»
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Re-examining the 'first impressions' adage
Minding the adage, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski wooed the teenage Barbara ... «ScienceBlog.com, Jun 15»
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McDonald's Names Silvia Lagnado Global Chief Marketing Officer
Welcome , Member; Logout · Become a Member · Login. Adage · Creativity · Lookbook · Datacenter · Resources · Events · Jobs · On Campus. «AdAge.com, Jun 15»

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