Associations to the word «Maxim»
Noun
- Hiram
- Proverb
- Precept
- Alexei
- Leonid
- Kant
- Politeness
- Pounder
- Axiom
- Playboy
- Esquire
- Relevance
- Konstantin
- Oleg
- Hearer
- Prudence
- Morality
- Lenin
- Elle
- Aleksandr
- Dmitri
- Nikita
- Sergei
- Confucius
- Principle
- Mikhail
- Nikolai
- Molotov
- Vladimir
- Fable
- Wisdom
- Recoil
- Moral
- Joey
- Andrei
- Pavel
- Contradiction
- Anton
- Violinist
- Equity
- Catering
- Sancho
- Gun
- Anecdote
- Utterance
- Grandmaster
- Igor
- Semantic
- Stalin
- Falsehood
- Jurisprudence
- Quotation
- Leech
- Lex
- Ich
- Motto
- Irony
- Inventor
- Boer
- Assent
- Prodigy
- Cato
- Porn
- Approbation
- Ivanov
- Valentin
- Olga
- Percy
- Ivan
- Precedent
- Observance
- Belarusian
- Haifa
- Realism
- Rebecca
- Honesty
- Mag
- Virtue
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
MAXIM, noun. (now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
MAXIM, noun. A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
MAXIM, proper noun. The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
MAXIM GUN, proper noun. A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
Dictionary definition
MAXIM, noun. A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits.
MAXIM, noun. English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916).
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.