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true

Pronunciation: /tɹuː/

The English word “true” has 18 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
  2. As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence
  3. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
  4. Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
  5. Loyal, faithful.
  6. Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
  7. Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false.
  8. Accurate; following a path toward the target.
  9. Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
  10. Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
  11. based on actual historical events.

adverb

  1. Accurately; in alignment.
  2. Truthfully.

noun

  1. The state of being in alignment.
  2. Truth.
  3. A pledge or truce.

verb

  1. To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
  2. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust (often followed by up).

Etymology

From Middle English treowe, trew, trewe, triwe, true, trwe, from Old English trēowe, trīewe (“faithful, true”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (“faithful, true”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewH- (“firm, hard, true”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Alemannic German trüüw (“loyal”), Dutch trouw (“loyal, true”), German treu (“loyal, true”),…

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