Home › Entities › general › saying

saying

short, usually meaningful phrase, such as a maxim, proverb, motto, or adage
Thing general Q3026787
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

saying

Summary

saying ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (87 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • saying's subclass of is recorded as set phrase[2].
  • saying's subclass of is recorded as work[3].
  • saying's said to be the same as is recorded as idiom[4].
  • saying's said to be the same as is recorded as maxim[5].
  • saying's said to be the same as is recorded as maxim[6].
  • saying's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0979jj[7].
  • saying's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph124944[8].
  • saying's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sayings[9].
  • saying's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300264590[10].
  • saying's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as PN6319-PN6328[11].
  • saying's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as PN6400-PN6525[12].
  • saying's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • saying's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000256548[14].
  • saying's has characteristic is recorded as oral tradition[15].
  • saying's different from is recorded as phraseme[16].
  • saying's YSO ID is recorded as 23817[17].
  • saying's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19623117[18].
  • saying's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as sayings[19].
  • saying's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2014026170[20].
  • saying's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wiki Loves Cultura Popular Brasil - People, knowledge and activities[21].
  • saying's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-326521[22].
  • saying's Provenio UUID is recorded as ec444163-9306-45a8-9482-5e08dbef6326[23].
  • saying's WikiKids ID is recorded as Gezegde_(zegswijze)[24].
  • saying's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 4776[25].

Why It Matters

saying ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (87 views/month).[1] saying has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] saying is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). saying. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/saying
MLA “saying.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/saying.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_saying_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{saying}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/saying}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): saying — https://4ort.xyz/entity/saying (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/saying · Last refreshed: