PROVERBS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Proverbs mean? 

• PROVERBS (noun)
  The noun PROVERBS has 1 sense:

1. an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon)

  Familiarity information: PROVERBS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVERBS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Proverbs; Proverbs

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Proverbs" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

sapiential book; wisdom book; wisdom literature (any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom)

 Context examples 

How true the old proverbs are.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)