Meaning and Origin
What does the name Truth mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Zambia says the name Truth means "/loving/".
- According to a user from Canada, the name Truth means "Loving, and truthful".
- The quality or being true; as: Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
- 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.] - Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
"Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth." [Coleridge.] - 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.]
- Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
- 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.]
- 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.]
- 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.]"He that doeth truth cometh to the light." [John iii. 21.]
Etymology: OE. treuthe trouthe treowpe, AS. treów�. See True; cf. Troth Betroth
- The quality of being near to the true value ("the lawyer questioned the truth of my account")
- A fact that has been verified ("at last he knew the truth" and "the truth is that he didn't want to do it")
- A true statement ("he told the truth" and "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it")
- 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)
- 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", and "he was famous for the truth of his portraits")
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”).
- True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some in his statement that he had no other choice.
- The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- 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.
- That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The is what is.
- Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to .
- (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal of human existence.
- (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.