maxim|maxims in English

noun

[max·im || 'mæksɪm]

expression of general truth; code of behavior, rule of conduct, precept; saying, proverb, adage

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1. Aphorisms aphorist aphoristic maxims maxim aphoristic writing Aphorismi Aphorismic aphoristic prose aphoristical

2. 1.containing aphorisms or maxims 2.terse and witty and like a maxim Familiarity information: Aphoristicused as an adjective is rare.

3. I absolutely love maxims.

4. Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Maxim.) Trautv

5. Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Maxim.) Trautv

6. She beamed happily at Maxim.

7. France, in the seventeenth century, who wrote Maximes, maxims.

8. —Maxim for rulers, quoted approvingly by Aurangzeb

9. Would you give me the Maxim Cabaret?

10. A terse, witty, instructive saying a maxim.

11. Open-mindedness and transparency are the maxims for our service.

12. Witticisms, maxims, dicta, proverbs, and aphorisms each inhabit a different world.

13. Enjoy the hospitality of the Hotel Maxim.

14. Maxim lifted him very gently to a sitting position.

15. “Absolute power Corrupts absolutely.” His maxim has been vividly

16. " Waste not, want not " is her favourite maxim.

17. Maxim caught him three strides up the second alley.

18. Plato gave priority to the Delphic maxim, "Know yourself".

19. A good maxim is never out of season. 

20. ‘Do your own thing’ is a popular maxim these days.

21. It'seemed to bear out Hemingway's own gloomy maxim about America.

22. Synonyms: saying , slogan , motto , maxim More Synonyms of Byword

23. In either case we violate the maxim of brevity.

24. This is expressed in the Latin maxim, reductio ad absurdum.

25. Aphoristically: with an aphorism, with a maxim: Translations: 1 – 1 / 1