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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary

Meaning of "truth" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRUTH

Old English triewth; related to Old High German gitriuwida fidelity, Old Norse tryggr true.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRUTH

truth  [truːθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRUTH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Truth is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRUTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Truth

Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. The commonly understood opposite of truth is falsehood, which, correspondingly, can also take on a logical, factual, or ethical meaning. The concept of truth is discussed and debated in several contexts, including philosophy and religion. Many human activities depend upon the concept, where it is assumed rather than being a subject of discussion; these include science, law, and everyday life. Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars, philosophers, and theologians. Language and words are a means by which humans convey information to one another and the method used to determine what is a "truth" is termed a criterion of truth. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth: what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that faith-based and empirically based knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective or objective, relative or absolute.

Definition of truth in the English dictionary

The first definition of truth in the dictionary is the quality of being true, genuine, actual, or factual. Other definition of truth is something that is true as opposed to false. Truth is also a proven or verified principle or statement; fact.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRUTH


Bluetooth
ˈbluːˌtuːθ
bucktooth
ˈbʌkˌtuːθ
Camborne-Redruth
ˈkæmbɔːnˈrɛdˌruːθ
couth
kuːθ
crwth
kruːθ
drouth
druːθ
Duluth
dəˈluːθ
mistruth
`mɪsˈtruːθ
ruth
ruːθ
sawtooth
ˈsɔːˌtuːθ
sleuth
sluːθ
snaggletooth
ˈsnæɡəlˌtuːθ
sooth
suːθ
strewth
struːθ
tolbooth
ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ
tollbooth
ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ
tooth
tuːθ
uncouth
ʌnˈkuːθ
untruth
ʌnˈtruːθ
youth
juːθ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRUTH

trustworthiness
trustworthy
trusty
truth drug
truth serum
truth set
truth table
truth-condition
truth-function
truth-value
truth-value gap
truther
truthful
truthfully
truthfulness
truthiness
truthless
truthlessness
truthlike
truthy

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRUTH

Bournemouth
Dartmouth
down in the mouth
down-in-the-mouth
Falmouth
gospel truth
half-truth
home truth
kashruth
logical truth
moment of truth
Monmouth
mouth
New South
Plymouth
Portsmouth
south
the horse´s mouth
the south
Yarmouth

Synonyms and antonyms of truth in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRUTH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «truth» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of truth

Translation of «truth» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRUTH

Find out the translation of truth to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of truth from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «truth» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

真理
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verdad
570 millions of speakers

English

truth
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सच्चाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَقِيقَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

истина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verdade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সত্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vérité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kebenaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wahrheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事実
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

진실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bebener
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உண்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सत्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hakikat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prawda
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

правда
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adevăr
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αλήθεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

waarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sanning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sannhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of truth

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUTH»

The term «truth» is very widely used and occupies the 3.046 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRUTH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «truth» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «truth» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about truth

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10 QUOTES WITH «TRUTH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word truth.
1
Arnold Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
2
Ray Blanton
When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
3
Christian Nestell Bovee
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
4
Marcus Brigstocke
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
5
Joyce Cary
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
6
Francis Chan
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
7
James Clavell
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
8
William Kingdon Clifford
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
9
John Churton Collins
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
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Tyler Cowen
In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRUTH»

Discover the use of truth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to truth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global ...
The former vice-president details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster.
Al Gore, 2006
2
Truth
When a prominent local adult is killed at a teen house party, the whole school seems to know who is to blame, but no one will go to the police.
Tanya Lloyd Kyi, 2003
3
Truth
This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism.
Alexis G. Burgess, John P. Burgess, 2011
4
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among ...
Shares the personal account of a woman who was psychologically and sexually abused along with her mother and younger brother by her revered Jehovah's Witness stepfather, whose behavior was unquestioned by their fundamentalist congregation. ...
Joy Castro, 2005
5
Truth
Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.
Peter Temple, 2010
6
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel
Ninth-grader Philip Malloy's suspension for humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Avi, 1991
7
Plain Truth
The discovery of a dead baby under a pile of old blankets in Aaron Fisher's barn sets off a scandal in Amish country and an investigation that could implicate Fisher's eighteen-year-old daughter.
Jodi Picoult, 2007
8
Winning the Zero Moment of Truth
Winning the Zero Moment of Truth is a powerful new eBook by Jim Lecinski, Managing Director of US Sales & Service and Chief ZMOT Evangelist at Google.
Jim Lecinksi
9
Truth: personas, needs, and flaws in the art of building ...
This book you hold is called Truth, and that title precisely describes the core of the work Susan Batson and I do together.
Susan Batson, Nicole Kidman, 2007
10
The Stone Cold Truth
It seemed nothing could stop the Texas Rattlesnake™, except himself. The Stone Cold Truth is an unvarnished take on his life, and you know it's the truth " 'cause Stone Cold says so!™"
Steve Austin, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRUTH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term truth is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ted Cruz demands NY Times apologize for 'lying' about 'A Time for …
Ted Cruz's campaign blasted The New York Times on Friday after it was revealed that the Texas Senator's new book, “A Time for Truth” would be kept off the ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
Anthony Anderson and his 'brassy' mother join ABC revival of To Tell …
ABC has announced its plans to revive the old game show To Tell The Truth, which ran during the 1950s and '60s, as a comedic game show/variety show hybrid ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
3
Amy Schumer Reveals The Not-So-Royal Truth About Being a …
Amy Schumer was just a regular ordinary girl...until Tim Gunn came in with some seriously life changing news. In her latest Inside Amy Schumer sketch, the ... «TV Guide, Jun 15»
4
South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets A Sequel
South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are writing and voicing this new game, as they did for Stick of Truth, and yep I'm already sold. On stage ... «Kotaku, Jun 15»
5
Wayward Pines: “The Truth
And I've never been so happy to be utterly mistaken, because “The Truth” is one of the boldest, most unexpected episodes of television I've seen this year. «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jun 15»
6
Truth and Reconciliation is Canada's last chance to get it right
The 382-page summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report is perfectly clear. It is written with elegance. There is nothing mysterious or ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
7
Truth and Reconciliation report calls for steps to improve First …
Justice Murray Sinclair speaks at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada event in Ottawa June 2, 2015. (BLAIR GABLE/Reuters) ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
8
Hunt the Truth Site Launches for Halo 5: Guardians
Following a brief teaser this weekend, Microsoft and 343 Industries have brought online the new Hunt the Truth site for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians. The site ... «ComingSoon.net, Mar 15»
9
Ted Cruz Book 'A Time for Truth' to be Released June 30
“A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Miracle of America,” has been set for June 30, 2015. Cruz, who is widely assumed to be preparing for a 2016 presidential run, ... «Breitbart News, Mar 15»
10
Kayla Mueller's parents wanted her "to tell the truth"
PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Kayla Mueller's parents say they wanted their daughter to tell the truth, though doing that may have cost her a chance to gain her freedom ... «CBS News, Feb 15»

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