truth

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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

• enPR: trōōth, IPA^(key): /tɹuːθ/
• Rhymes: -uːθ

Noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

4. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
5. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
8. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
9. (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
10. (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:truth

Antonyms

• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

1. (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.

2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
3. (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.

See also

• truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “truth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “truth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Hurtt