Crossword-Solution: MAXIM 5 letters, 115 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Maxim	n.	An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
Maxim	n.	The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.

We have 115 clues for the answer “MAXIM”

Clue	Answers
"A stitch in time ..." is one	1 answer
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," e.g.	1 answer
"Actions speak louder than words," e.g.	1 answer
"An apple a day ..." is one	1 answer
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," for one	1 answer
"Hunger never saw bad bread," for one	1 answer
"It is more blessed to give . . . ," for example.	1 answer
"It takes money to make money," e.g.	1 answer
"No pain, no gain," e.g.	1 answer
"One man's trash is another man's treasure," for one	1 answer
"Poor Richard's Almanac" entry	1 answer
"There's no 'I' in team," for one	1 answer
"This too shall pass," for one	1 answer
"Time is money" or "money is power"	1 answer
Alternative to Stuff magazine	1 answer
Annual "Hot 100" publisher	1 answer
Best-selling lad mag in the U.S.	1 answer
Concise saying	1 answer
Concisely put principle	1 answer
FHM competitor	1 answer
Gent's mag with liberally airbrushed covers	1 answer
Gorki's adage?	1 answer
Handsome is...	1 answer
Hunger never saw bad bread, e.g.	1 answer
Inventor of automatic gun (1840–1916).	1 answer
Magazine that covers "Sex, Sports, Beer, Gadgets, Clothes, Fitness"	1 answer
Magazine with a "Hot 100" list	1 answer
Magazine with an annual Hot 100	1 answer
Mr. Gorky.	1 answer
Needlepoint pillow decoration, perhaps	1 answer
Popular lad mag	1 answer
Popular pinup publication	1 answer
Proverbial brand of coffee?	1 answer
Proverbial truth	1 answer
Rule for living ... or a magazine for men	1 answer
Sage saying	1 answer
Saw from a wise perspective	1 answer
Statement to live by	1 answer
Stock saying	1 answer
US inventor family	1 answer
Writer Gorki	1 answer
Writer Gorky	1 answer
general truth or principle	1 answer
russian author gorky	1 answer
"Poor Richard's Almanack" tidbit	2 answers
Silence is golden, e.g.	2 answers
Uppercase, it's a magazine; lowercase, it's a proverbial saying	2 answers
Widely accepted saying	2 answers
Nurturing place	2 answers
Popular men's magazine	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATERE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with MAXIM (5)

The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See {magic}, sense 1, for illumination of this point.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” Ichabod Crane’s scholars certainly were not spoiled.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

One hour." Ben Shellhorn, a denizen of the streets, reported stories that sometimes didn't fit within the all-the-news-that's-fit-to-print maxim.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Without disputing a maxim urged by such grave authority, the Palmer thanked them for their courtesy, but observed that he had included in his religious vow, an obligation never to speak in the kitchen on matters which were prohibited in the hall.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with MAXIM (3)

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general), it seems that we have also delineated the method to be employed. The task of ontology is to explain Being itself and to make the Being of entities stand out in full relief. And the method of ontology remains questionable in the highest degree as long as we merely consult those ontologies which have come down to us historically,…

Martin Heidegger

And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one soul, maybe less And that is why you'll never hear me call a woman slut, bitch or a dyke, No matter what she does, because I do not blame her I blame the men who have emotionally and physically raped her, I blame these corporations whose images tell them they hate her, And I put my arms on her shoulder and tell her how great to life and to God that SHE created her

Mark Gonzales

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 94 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).