proverbial
adjective (more proverbial, most proverbial)
Everyday
Proverbial means well known, the sort of thing people always mention, as if it were a saying or proverb. tree →
In the lessons
in stories, the word names a famous quality that everybody already knows about someone or something: «a woman's proverbial curiosity»
Examples
- The fox has a proverbial cunning. tree →
- Her proverbial patience was tested by the noisy class. tree →
- His beauty became proverbial in the land. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «proverbial» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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