Definitions for axiom

axiom ax·i·om

Spelling: [ak-see-uh m]
IPA: /ˈæk si əm/

Axiom is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in axiom (aimox).

Definitions for axiom

noun

  1. a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
  2. a universally accepted principle or rule.
  3. Logic, Mathematics. a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it.

Origin of axiom

1475-85; Latin axiōma Greek: something worthy, equivalent to axiō-, variant stem of axioûn to reckon worthy + -ma resultative noun suffix

Examples for axiom

It's an axiom, I think, that to heighten a nation's wisdom you must lower its franchise.

The axiom was a favourite with his father, who had sickened him with it.

So convinced am I of the truth of this axiom, that I should not die easy if I had not told it.

Jakes says he believes in the axiom that the act of forgiveness is not really a gift to others as much as it is a gift to oneself.

That is an axiom I have frequently heard fall from the lips of my dear mistress.

That the half may be better than the whole in travel is an axiom verified every day.

Whether or not Hippocrates ever actually said “First, do no harm,” the axiom is central to medical ethics.

I am able, as well as any man, to verify the truth of this axiom.

It is an axiom in all progress that the more we conquer the more easily we conquer.

In the practice of law this axiom is not yet generally accepted.

Word Value for axiom
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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