truth
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)truths
- a fact that has been verified“at last he knew the truth”“the truth is that he didn't want to do it”Type of factKinds home truth, verity
- conformity to reality or actuality“they debated the truth of the proposition”“the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat”“he was famous for the truth of his portraits”“he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities”Synonyms: the trueveritytruenessType of actualityAttribute of true, false
- a true statement“he told the truth”“he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it”Synonyms: true statementType of statementKinds gospel, truism, tautology
- the quality of being near to the true value“he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass”“the lawyer questioned the truth of my account”Synonyms: accuracyType of qualityKinds fidelity, exactnessAttribute of accurate, inaccurate
- United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)Synonyms: Sojourner TruthInstance of abolitionist, feminist
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Translations
Noun being true, faithfulness
- Spanish
- verdad
- French
- vérité
- German
- Wahrheit
- Italian
- verità
- Portuguese
- verdade
- Turkish
- hakikat
- Russian
- пра́вда právda
- Arabic
- حَقِيقَة ḥaqīqa
- Chinese
- 真理 zhēnlǐ
- Japanese
- 真実 shinjitsu
31 more languages
- Dutch
- waarheid
- Polish
- prawda
- Swedish
- sanning
- Greek
- αλήθεια alítheia
- Korean
- 진실 jinsil
- Indonesian
- kebenaran
- Hungarian
- igazság
- Portuguese (PT)
- verdade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 真理 zhēnlǐ
- Breton
- gwir
- Catalan
- veritat
- Czech
- pravda
- Danish
- sandhed
- Esperanto
- vero
- Estonian
- tõde
- Finnish
- totuus
- Georgian
- სიმართლე simartle
- Hebrew
- אמת emét
- Icelandic
- sannleikur
- Kurdish
- rastî
- Latvian
- patiesība
- Lithuanian
- tiesa
- Norwegian
- sannhet
- Romanian
- adevăr
- Scottish Gaelic
- fìrinn
- Serbo-Croatian
- istina
- Slovak
- pravda
- Slovenian
- resnica
- Swahili
- ukweli
- Welsh
- gwir
- Yiddish
- אמת emes
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów…. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.
1. The quality or being true; as: — (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.— John Mortimer
(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth.— Samuel T. Coleridge
(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth.— William Shakespeare
2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.— Zech. viii. 16.
I long to know the truth here of at large.— William Shakespeare
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.— Samuel T. Coleridge
3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting... is found a truth.— 2 Cor. vii. 14.
4. Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.— John i. 17.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.— John xvii. 17.
In truth, in reality; in fact. — Of a truth, in reality; certainly. — To do truth, to practice what God commands.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light.— John iii. 21.
To assert as true; to declare. rare
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.— John Ford
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54