Definition of says

"says" in the noun sense

1. say

the chance to speak

"let him have his say"

"says" in the verb sense

1. state, say, tell

express in words

"He said that he wanted to marry her"

"tell me what is bothering you"

"state your opinion"

"state your name"

2. allege, aver, say

report or maintain

"He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"

"He said it was too late to intervene in the war"

"The registrar says that I owe the school money"

3. suppose, say

express a supposition

"Let us say that he did not tell the truth"

"Let's say you had a lot of money

4. read, say

have or contain a certain wording or form

"The passage reads as follows"

"What does the law say?"

5. order, tell, enjoin, say

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

"I said to him to go home"

"She ordered him to do the shopping"

"The mother told the child to get dressed"

6. pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say

speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

"She pronounces French words in a funny way"

"I cannot say `zip wire'"

"Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

7. say

communicate or express nonverbally

"What does this painting say?"

"Did his face say anything about how he felt?"

8. say

utter aloud

"She said `Hello' to everyone in the office"

9. say

state as one's opinion or judgement declare

"I say let's forget this whole business"

10. say

recite or repeat a fixed text

"Say grace"

"She said her `Hail Mary'"

11. say

indicate

"The clock says noon"

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Quotations for says

None says his garner is full. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nature knows best, and she says, roar! [ Maria Edgeworth ]

I was taken by a morsel, says the fish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Talk much and err much, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. [ Rabelais ]

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart does not think all the mouth says. [ Ariosto ]

Threatened men eat bread, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One eye-witness is better than ten hear-says. [ Proverb ]

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good. [ Aurelius Antoninus ]

The good mother says not "will you ?" but gives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that trusts much obliges much, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The child says nothing but what it heard by the sire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Man is Creation's master-piece. But who says so? - Man! [ Gavarni ]

The discreet hand does not do all that the tongue says. [ Proverb ]

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

He says any thing but his prayers, and them he whistles. [ Proverb ]

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says Adieu. [ J. G. Saxe ]

It is not as your mother says, but as your neighbours say. [ Proverb ]

Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

He drags his chain, and yet says it is others that are mad. [ Proverb ]

The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. [ Addison ]

Books, says my Lord Bacon, should have no patrons but truth and reason. [ Colton ]

What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water. [ Catullus ]

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What woman says to her fond lover should be written in air or the swift water. [ Catullus ]

Hope says to us at every moment: Go on! go on! and leads us thus to the grave. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

When a man says he has exhausted life one always knows life has exhausted him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]

A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. [ H. W. Shaw ]

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. [ Bovee ]

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. [ W. R. Alger ]

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool, when he speaks. [ Proverb ]

The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind what the other half says. [ Goldsmith ]

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. [ Voltaire ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

There is no heat of affection but is joined with some idleness of brain, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. [ Aaron Hill ]

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. [ Emerson ]

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. [ Haliburton ]

Love without end hath no end, says the Spaniard; meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man. [ Chamfort ]

What a fool is he who says to a woman. Will you? Dost not know, simpleton, that they always pretend not to be willing? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. [ Bruyfere ]

The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love today, than the felicities of heaven afar off. [ Bovee ]

An old Spanish writer says, To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; but to return good for evil is godlike. [ Whately ]

If a woman says to you, I will never see you again! hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure - travel.

Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations. [ Bovee ]

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. [ Pascal ]

I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes. [ Carlyle ]

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better. [ John Burroughs ]

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. [ Washington Irving ]

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. [ Beaconsfield ]

Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]

All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]

Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish. Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]

There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]

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The word says is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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2 letter words in says (3 words)

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Word Growth involving says

Shorter words in says

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