Proverb vs Provers - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between proverb and provers

is that proverb is a phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations while provers is .

is to write or utter proverbs.

(wikipedia proverb)

(en noun)

A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.

A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

* Bible, John xvi. 29

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb .

A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37

Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb , and a by word, among all nations.

A drama exemplifying a proverb.

* (phrase expressing a basic truth) adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, saying, sententia * See also

* proverbial * proverbiology * proverbs hunt in pairs

(en verb)

To write or utter proverbs.

To name in, or as, a proverb.

* 1671 , John Milton, Samson Agonistes , lines 203-205:

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"

To provide with a proverb.

* Shakespeare

I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

(Webster 1913)

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