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RELATED WORD : go without saying

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun saying has 1 sense

• saying(n = noun.communication) expression, locution - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
has particulars: beatitude, logion, calque, calque formation, loan translation, advice and consent, ambiguity, euphemism, dysphemism, shucks, tongue twister, anatomical, anatomical reference, southernism, catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogan, axiom, maxim, epigram, quip, adage, byword, proverb, saw, idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, phrase, set phrase, agrapha, sumpsimus
is a kind of language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
Derived form verb say₁₀

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THESAURUS

saying

Parthian shot, adage, address, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, ana, analects, announcement, annunciation, answer, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, comment, conclusion, crack, creed, current saying, declaration, dictate, dictum, distich, enunciation, epigram, exclamation, expression, gnome, golden saying, greeting, interjection, ipse dixit, manifesto, maxim, mention, moral, mot, motto, note, observation, oracle, phrase, pithy saying, position, position paper, positive declaration, precept, predicate, predication, prescript, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, question, reflection, remark, saw, say, say-so, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, stance, stand, statement, stock saying, subjoinder, sutra, teaching, text, thought, truism, utterance, verse, vouch, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom

ROGET THESAURUS

saying

Maxim

N maxim, aphorism, apothegm, apophthegm, dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb, sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis, axiom, theorem, scholium, truism, postulate, first principles, a priori fact, assumption (supposition), reflection, conclusion, golden rule, principle, principia, profession of faith, settled principle, accepted principle, formula, accepted fact, received truth, wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized maxim, true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying, commonplace saying, aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric, axiomatic, gnomic, as the saying goes, as the saying is, as they say.

Affirmation

N affirmance, affirmation, statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment, confirmation, asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit, deposition, avouchment, assurance, protest, protestation, profession, acknowledgment, legal pledge, pronouncement, solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration, remark, observation, position, saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit, emphasis, weight, dogmatism, dogmatics, asserting, declaratory, predicatory, pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant, positive, certain, express, explicit, absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory, unretracted, predicable, affirmatively, in the affirmative, with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction, as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know, upon my word, upon my honor, by my troth, egad, I assure you, by jingo, by Jove, by George, troth, seriously, sadly, in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest, of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath, be assured, yes, I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath, in fact, forsooth, joking apart, so help me God, not to mince the matter, quoth he, dixi.

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