Saying

Synonyms for "saying" (124 found)

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Closest matches (25)

Strong matches (37)

Adjective(3 words)
clichédgnomichackneyed

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9 relation types

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6 entries

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Related terms

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derived

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form of

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is a

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related to

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Translations

93 translations across 45 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • παροιμία noun (proverb or maxim)

Arabic

2 entries
  • قول noun (proverb or maxim)
  • قَوْل noun (proverb or maxim)

Armenian

1 entries
  • առած noun (proverb or maxim)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • пры́казка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • пры́маўка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • прысло́ўе noun (proverb or maxim)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • погово́рка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • пословица noun (proverb or maxim)

Catalan

2 entries
  • dita noun (proverb or maxim)
  • proverbi noun (proverb or maxim)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 常言 noun (proverb or maxim)
  • 說法 /说法 noun (proverb or maxim)
  • 諺語 /谚语 noun (proverb or maxim)

Czech

2 entries
  • přísloví noun (proverb or maxim)
  • rčení noun (proverb or maxim)

Dutch

2 entries
  • gezegde noun (proverb or maxim)
  • spreekwoord noun (proverb or maxim)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • sentenco noun (proverb or maxim)

Finnish

1 entries
  • sanonta noun (proverb or maxim)

French

1 entries
  • dicton noun (proverb or maxim)

Galician

1 entries
  • dito noun (proverb or maxim)

German

3 entries
  • Ausspruch noun (proverb or maxim)
  • Redensart noun (proverb or maxim)
  • Sprichwort noun (proverb or maxim)

Greek

3 entries
  • απόφθεγμα noun (proverb or maxim)
  • παροιμία noun (proverb or maxim)
  • ρητό noun (proverb or maxim)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • közmondás noun (proverb or maxim)
  • mondás noun (proverb or maxim)
  • szólásmondás noun (proverb or maxim)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • pepatah noun (proverb or maxim)

Interlingua

2 entries
  • dicto noun (proverb or maxim)
  • proverbio noun (proverb or maxim)

Irish

1 entries
  • nath noun (proverb or maxim)

Italian

3 entries
  • detto noun (proverb or maxim)
  • massima noun (proverb or maxim)
  • proverbio noun (proverb or maxim)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 格言 noun (proverb or maxim)

Korean

2 entries
  • 격언 noun (proverb or maxim)
  • 속담 noun (proverb or maxim)

Latin

3 entries
  • dictum noun (proverb or maxim)
  • fatus noun (proverb or maxim)
  • ēlogium noun (proverb or maxim)

Luxembourgish

2 entries
  • Sprachwuert noun (proverb or maxim)
  • Sproch noun (proverb or maxim)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • изрека noun (proverb or maxim)
  • поговорка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • пословица noun (proverb or maxim)

Malayalam

2 entries
  • പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് noun (proverb or maxim)
  • പഴമൊഴി noun (proverb or maxim)

Māori

4 entries
  • kīanga noun (proverb or maxim)
  • tongikura noun (proverb or maxim)
  • tūātau noun (proverb or maxim)
  • whakapepeha noun (proverb or maxim)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Saj noun (proverb or maxim)

Polish

1 entries
  • powiedzenie noun (proverb or maxim)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • ditado noun (proverb or maxim)
  • provérbio noun (proverb or maxim)

Romanian

3 entries
  • proverb noun (proverb or maxim)
  • zicală noun (proverb or maxim)
  • zicătoare noun (proverb or maxim)

Russian

4 entries
  • погово́рка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • посло́вица noun (proverb or maxim)
  • при́сказка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • присло́вье noun (proverb or maxim)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • izreka noun (proverb or maxim)
  • poslovica noun (proverb or maxim)

Slovak

2 entries
  • príslovie noun (proverb or maxim)
  • rčenie noun (proverb or maxim)

Spanish

4 entries
  • adagio noun (proverb or maxim)
  • dicho noun (proverb or maxim)
  • proverbio noun (proverb or maxim)
  • refrán noun (proverb or maxim)

Swahili

1 entries
  • msemo noun (proverb or maxim)

Swedish

3 entries
  • ordspråk noun (proverb or maxim)
  • ordstäv noun (proverb or maxim)
  • talesätt noun (proverb or maxim)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • kasabihan noun (proverb or maxim)
  • sabi noun (proverb or maxim)

Turkish

2 entries
  • atasözü noun (proverb or maxim)
  • özdeyiş noun (proverb or maxim)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • при́казка noun (proverb or maxim)
  • прислі́в'я noun (proverb or maxim)

Urdu

1 entries
  • کہاوت noun (proverb or maxim)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • câu nói noun (proverb or maxim)

Walloon

2 entries
  • dijhêye noun (proverb or maxim)
  • spot noun (proverb or maxim)

Welsh

1 entries
  • dywediad noun (proverb or maxim)

Yiddish

3 entries
  • וועלטסווערטל noun (proverb or maxim)
  • פֿאָלקסווערטל noun (proverb or maxim)
  • שפּריכוואָרט noun (proverb or maxim)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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I'm just saying!

Source: tatoeba (1343)

You are saying you intentionally hide your good looks?

Source: tatoeba (1380)

There's no point saying "Hi, how are you?" to me if you have nothing else to say.

Source: tatoeba (1768)

Unsure of which suitor she wanted to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.

Source: tatoeba (1941)

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