faith
/feɪθ/
faith noun: a trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. Also the alternative form of in faith.
Noun
faith (countable and uncountable, plural faiths)
- A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
- I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
- A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
- I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
- I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
- Synonyms:
- belief, confidence, trust, conviction
- A religious or spiritual belief system.
- The Christian faith.
- We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?
- An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
- He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
- Credibility or truth.
- the faith of the foregoing […] narrative1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
Proper noun capitalized: Faith
Faith (countable and uncountable, plural Faiths)
- A female given name from English.
- "Now, I was called Faith after the cardinal virtue; and I like my name, though many people would think it too Puritan; that was according to our gentle mother's pious desire.1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter XVII, in Ruth
- “Faith.”
“No name that—no name that! I can’t stomach such a name. Got any other?”
“No, sir.”
“Don’t like the name, don’t like it. There’s no smeddum to it. Besides, it makes me think of my Aunt Jinny. She called her three girls Faith, Hope, and Charity. Faith didn’t believe in anything—Hope was a...1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XVI, in Rainbow Valley, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 90
- A surname, also used as a stage name.
- An unincorporated community in Norman County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Miller County, Missouri.
- A town in Rowan County, North Carolina.
- A minor city in Meade County, South Dakota.
Also used as
faith is also the alternative form of in faith.
faith is also the ellipsis of by my faith.
faith meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
faith in Hindi
- feeling that something is true
- आस्था āsthā, धारणा dhārṇā, ईमान īmān, यक़ीन yaqīn, विश्वास viśvās, श्रद्धा śraddhā
- religious belief system
- धर्म dharm, दीन dīn
faith in Urdu
- feeling that something is true
- اِیمان īmān, یَقِین yaqīn, اِعْتِقاد i'tiqād
- religious belief system
- اِیمان īmān, دِین dīn
faith in Bengali
- feeling that something is true
- বিশ্বাস biśśaś, এতেকাদ etekad, ঈমান iman
faith in Telugu
- feeling that something is true
- నమ్మకము nammakamu, విశ్వాసము viśvāsamu
More languagesFewer languages
- faith in Malayalam
- വിശ്വാസം viśvāsaṁ
- faith in Sanskrit
- श्रद्धा śraddhā
- faith in Nepali
- विश्वास
- faith in Pashto
- ايمان imãn, اعتقاد e'teqãd
- faith in Tagalog
- pananampalataya, paniniwala
- faith in Arabic
- إِيمَان ʔīmān, مُعْتَقَد muʕtaqad, اِعْتِقَاد iʕtiqād, دِين dīn
- faith in Malay
- iman, din
- faith in Indonesian
- keyakinan, kepercayaan, iman
- faith in Thai
- ศรัทธา sàt-taa, ความเชื่อ kwaam-chʉ̂ʉa
- faith in Vietnamese
- tín ngưỡng, tin, tin tưởng
- faith in Myanmar
- သဒ္ဓါ saddha
Examples of faith in a sentence
- Have faith in him, buddy.
- You need to have faith in yourself, that you can overcome your shortcomings and become a good person.
- […]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of...
- Gradually I realized that I needed a faith to rely on.2020 March 27, “Dafa Taught Me How to Be a Good Person”, in Minghui:
Synonyms of faith
- belief
- confidence
- trust
- conviction
- system of religious belief
Forms of faith
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | faiths |
| alternative form (obsolete) | feith |
| alternative form (obsolete) | feithe |
| alternative form (obsolete) | fayth |
| alternative form (obsolete) | faythe |
| alternative form (obsolete) | faithe |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Faiths |
Origin of faith
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
Words formed from faith
- Fuffy
- act of faith
- antifaith
- article of faith
- Attic faith
- bad faith
- blind faith
- by my faith
- cupboard faith
- faith and begorra
- faith-based
- faithbreach
- faithbreaker
- faith can move mountains
- faith-cure
- faithectomy
- faithed
- faitheism
- faitheist
- faithful
- faithfully
- faithfulness
- faithhead
- faith-healer
- faith healer
- faith healing
- faithing
- faithism
- faithist
- faithless
- faith-lift
- faithly
- faith supper
- faith will move mountains
- faithwise
- faithworthy
- faithy
- full faith and credit
- good faith
- i' faith
- in faith
- interfaith
- intrafaith
- keep faith
- keep the faith
- leap of faith
- misfaith
- multi-faith
- multifaith
- nonfaith
- oh me of little faith
- oh ye of little faith
- O me of little faith
- O ye of little faith
- profession of faith
- Punic faith
- seed-faith
- take on faith
- unfaith
- word of faith
Phrases with faith
- kept faith
- Bahai Faith
- Baháí Faith
- keeps faith
- Baha'i Faith
- Bahaʼi Faith
- Bahá'í Faith
- Baháʼí Faith
- Nicene Faith
- faith healers
- faith suppers
- keeping faith
15 more phrasesFewer phrases
- took on faith
- leaps of faith
- taken on faith
- takes on faith
- taking on faith
- articles of faith
- ye of little faith
- oh I of little faith
- Defender of the Faith
- oh, I of little faith
- oh, me of little faith
- oh, ye of little faith
- O someone of little faith
- oh someone of little faith
- oh, someone of little faith
Words that rhyme with faith
Questions about faith
- What does faith mean?
- Faith means a trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- What is faith in Hindi?
- Faith in Hindi is आस्था (āsthā), धारणा (dhārṇā), ईमान (īmān). See Faith meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use faith in a sentence?
- Have faith in him, buddy.
- What part of speech is faith?
- Faith can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce faith?
- Faith is pronounced /feɪθ/.
- What is the plural of faith?
- The plural of faith is faiths.
Words near faith in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: faith (page history and authors); Faith (page history and authors); faith (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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