Definitions for Maxim

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Maxim max·im

Spelling: [mak-sim]

IPA: /ˈmæk sɪm/

Maxim is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Maxim (aimmx).

Definitions for Maxim

noun

1. an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one:
2. a principle or rule of conduct.
3. Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
4. his father, Sir Hiram Stevens, 1840–1916, English inventor, born in the U.S.: inventor of the Maxim gun.
5. Hudson, 1853–1927, U.S. inventor and explosives expert (brother of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim).
6. a male given name, form of Maximilian.

Origin of Maxim

1400-50; late Middle English maxime ≪ Medieval Latin maxima (orig. in phrase maxima prōpositiō axiom, literally, greatest proposition), noun use of feminine of Latin maximus, superlative of m

Examples for Maxim

Apply this maxim—you may do it a thousand ways, especially in company.

The maxim proved true: Necessity is the mother of invention.

He fired his volley of explanation at his employer with the rapidity of a maxim gun.

And now one of the nastiest men in Russia, maxim Martsinkevich, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Her book, for example, does not discuss her buzzed-about, scantily clad maxim photo shoot from last year, and so neither do we.

What a man does by another he does by himself, says the maxim.

He should have stuck to his own maxim: march separately and fight together.

This expression has ever since held its place as a maxim of polite conversation.

"No faith with duns" became, as he frankly declared, a maxim of his morality.

She felt a maxim cover would be too racy, but now she finds herself performing solo acts for fans on MyFreeCams.