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# proverbial

«proverbial» in Mova's school dictionary: **well known, the sort of thing people always mention, as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more proverbial, most proverbial)

### meaning for a pupil

Proverbial means well known, the sort of thing people always mention, as if it were a saying or proverb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proverbial/#m1)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proverbial/#x1)
- Her proverbial patience was tested by the noisy class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proverbial/#x2)
- His beauty became proverbial in the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proverbial/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «proverbial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/proverbial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.