Usually means: Concise saying expressing a truth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. apothegm: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apothegm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apothegm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apothegm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apothegm: Vocabulary.com
  6. apothegm: Wordnik
  7. apothegm: Wiktionary
  8. apothegm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apothegm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. apothegm: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Apothegm, apothegm: Dictionary.com
  12. apothegm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Apothegm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Apothegm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. apothegm: Rhymezone
  16. Apothegm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. apothegm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. apothegm: Free Dictionary
  19. apothegm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. apothegm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. apothegm: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. apothegm: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. apothegm: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

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  1. apothegm: Legal dictionary

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  1. apothegm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. apothegm: A Word A Day
  2. apothegm: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See apothegmatic as well.)

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noun:  A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.

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