true
consistent with fact or reality; not false
How often you will meet it
Rank 300 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 70,524 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.034% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- consistent with fact or reality; not false the story is trueit is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
- accurately placed or thrown also: dead on target his aim was truehe was dead on target
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them
- expressing or given to expressing the truth also: truthful a true statementgave truthful testimony
- conforming to definitive criteria the horseshoe crab is not a true crabPythagoras was the first true mathematician
- worthy of being depended on also: dependable, honest, reliable a dependable workeran honest working stiff
true in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The Order is true to its oaths.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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Even things that are true can be proved.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Thou speakest true, though I would rather stay, Our duty calls, so to the hills, away!
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The warning was unheeded by Ford, who entered upon the premises, when Biscoe, true to his word, fired upon him.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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I haven't got anything to say, so's you'd notice it, except that I'll be blamed if I see how this is true.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1