In contemporary scientific life of language theory, among linguistic paradigms such as synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, polysemy, meronymy (partonymy), holonymy, hyponymy a new linguistic phenomenon -"graduonymy" appeared. Uzbek linguists Begmatov et al. (1989), Bozorov (1995), Arifjonova (1996), Djumabaeva (2014, 2016a,b) investigated this issue firstly and then it has been studied in other languages (Vokhidova (2008) in German; Djumabaeva (2014, 2016a,b) in English). This phenomenon identifies

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... inly lexical-semantic relations of words and phrases. Therefore, its essential value is in the field of semantics. This paper shows the types and main peculiarities of graduonymic relations of Uzbek proverbs by illustrating the framework with the translations and equivalents of these proverbs in English (not all Uzbek proverbs have English equivalents) for identifying their meanings as well. Scientists consider proverbs as complex linguistic and folklore units at the same time, and analyse them in various ways. Here, I aim to investigate two types of graduonymic relations of proverbs: 1) among the effectiveness and strength of their whole meanings and 2) among their