oath
UK/ˈəʊθ//ˈoʊθ/
oath noun: a solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
Noun
oath (plural oaths)
- A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
- The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A curse, a curse word.
- The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows
Verb
oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)
- To pledge.
oath meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
oath in Hindi
- solemn pledge
- शपथ śapath, सौगंद saugand, क़सम qasam
oath in Tamil
- சத்தியப் பிரமாணம், உறுதிமொழி, பற்றுறுதி
oath in Marathi
- oath
- आण āṇ
oath in Urdu
- solemn pledge
- قَسَم qasam, سَوگَنْد saugand, حَلْف half, شَپَتھ śapath
More languagesFewer languages
- oath in Bengali
- শপথ śopoth, কসম kośom
- oath in Telugu
- ప్రమాణం pramāṇaṁ
- oath in Malayalam
- ശപഥം śapathaṁ, പ്രത്യയം pratyayaṁ, പ്രതിജ്ഞ pratijña
- oath in Kannada
- ಸೂರುಳ್, ಸೂರುಳು, ಸುರುಳು, ಸೊರಳು
- oath in Punjabi
- ਸਹੁੰ sahũ, ਕਸਮ kasam, سَون٘ہہ sauṉh, قَسَم qasam
- oath in Gujarati
- સોગન sogan, સોગંદ sogand, શપથ śapath, કસમ kasam
- oath in Odia
- ଶପଥ śapatha
- oath in Sanskrit
- शपथ śapatha
- oath in Nepali
- शपथ
- oath in Pashto
- سوګند sawgand, حلف half
- oath in Tagalog
- panunumpa
- oath in Arabic
- قَسَم qasam, حَلْف ḥalf, حِلْف ḥilf, يَمِين yamīn
- oath in Malay
- sumpah
- oath in Indonesian
- sumpah
- oath in Thai
- คำสาบาน kam-sǎa-baan
- oath in Vietnamese
- lời tuyên thệ, lời thề
- oath in Myanmar
- သစ္စာ sacca
Examples of oath in a sentence
- But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word.2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space, →ISBN:
- There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.2011, Mark Leyne, The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel:
- "I want to release you from your oath," he said, a slight flutter in his voice.2002, David B. Coe, Rules of Ascension, Tom Doherty Associates, page 127:
Synonyms of oath
Forms of oath
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | oaths |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | oaths |
| present participle | oathing |
| past participle | oathed |
| past | oathed |
Origin of oath
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
Words formed from oath
- abjuration oath
- bodily oath
- book oath
- corporal oath
- counteroath
- Hippocratic oath
- ken oath
- minced oath
- my bloody oath
- oathable
- oathbound
- oathbreach
- oathbreaker
- oathbreaking
- oath-brother
- oathful
- oath-helper
- oath-helping
- oathless
- oathlet
- oathlike
- oathmaker
- oath of allegiance
- oath of calumny
- oath of office
- oath-ring
- oathtaker
- oathtaking
- oathworthy
- on oath
- ring-oath
- take oath
- under oath
- weapon oath
Phrases with oath
Words that rhyme with oath
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Questions about oath
- What does oath mean?
- Oath means a solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- What is oath in Hindi?
- Oath in Hindi is शपथ (śapath), सौगंद (saugand), क़सम (qasam). See Oath meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use oath in a sentence?
- But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word.
- What part of speech is oath?
- Oath can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce oath?
- Oath is pronounced /ˈəʊθ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of oath?
- The plural of oath is oaths.
Words near oath in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: oath (page history and authors); oath (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आण (Marathi) (page history and authors); പ്രതിജ്ഞ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); oath (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oath (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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