accuracy, truth
(noun) the quality of being near to the true value; āhe was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compassā; āthe lawyer questioned the truth of my accountā
truth
(noun) a fact that has been verified; āat last he knew the truthā; āthe truth is that he didnāt want to do itā
truth, true statement
(noun) a true statement; āhe told the truthā; āhe thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldnāt believe itā
Truth, Sojourner Truth
(noun) 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)
truth, the true, verity, trueness
(noun) conformity to reality or actuality; āthey debated the truth of the propositionā; āthe situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threatā; āhe was famous for the truth of his portraitsā; āhe turned to religion in his search for eternal veritiesā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
(obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or āgenuineā reality.
(countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
(physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
• See truth
• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth
truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)
(obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
(nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
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Source: Wiktionary
Truth, n.; pl. Truths. Etym: [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treĆ³w. 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. Mortimer.
(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. 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. Shak.
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. Shak. The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. 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.
Truth, v. t.
Definition: To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
