truth
Alternative forms
- trewth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- 1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge; w:Henry Nelson Coleridge, quoting w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge[1], volume II, →ISBN, strana 19:
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- 2014 јун 21, “Magician’s brain”, in w:The Economist[2], volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 4 November 2018, retrieved 12 July 2014:
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- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
- 2012 јануар 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in w:American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, strana 31:
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- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
- (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- Шаблон:RQ:Mortimer Husbandry
- 1840, w:Joseph Whitworth, A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes:
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- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The truth is what is.
- Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
- (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
- When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:truth
Antonyms
Derived terms
- ain't that the truth
- bend the truth
- countertruth
- economical with the truth
- first truth
- God's honest truth
- God's truth
- Gospel truth
- grain of truth
- ground truth
- half-truth
- hard truth
- home truth
- if truth be told
- in truth
- in wine, there is truth
- it's the truth, Ruth
- kernel of truth
- live one's truth
- moment of truth
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- nugget of truth
- of a truth
- post-truth
- ring of truth
- semitruth
- sneeze on the truth
- speak truth to power
- stretch the truth
- tell the truth
- tell-truth
- tell you the truth
- trickle truth
- truth be told
- truth bomb
- truth drug
- truthen
- trutherism
- truthful
- truth function
- truthiness
- truth is stranger than fiction
- truthless
- truthlike
- truth or dare
- truth quark
- truth quotient
- truth serum
- truth squad
- truth table
- truth to tell
- truth tree
- truth value
- truth will out
- truthy
- vacuous truth
Related terms
Translations
true facts
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conformity to fact or reality
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state or quality of being true to someone or something
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pledge of loyalty or faith
that which is real
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something acknowledged to be true
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Verb
truth
- (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
- c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- 1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, strana 226:
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- 1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, strana cxxvi:
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- 2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, strana 67:
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- (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
- 1966, w:Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin':
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See also
- truth на Википедији.Википедији
References
- truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Шаблон:R:Keywords 21st
- truth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
- Hurtt (alphagram hrttu)
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