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of one's word

of one's word prepositional phrase: that keeps promises and tells the truth.

Prepositional phrase

  1. That keeps promises and tells the truth.
    • She never needed to show them to us — we knew, just as the adults did, that Dadi was a woman of her word.1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass, →ISBN, page 1
    • Dean is a great guy and is always helping someone. He is a man of his word, very respectable, and highly intelligent. But he is not the kind of man you would want to cross if you know what I mean.2012, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, →ISBN, page 143

Questions about of one's word

What does of one's word mean?
Of one's word means that keeps promises and tells the truth.
What part of speech is of one's word?
Of one's word is a prepositional phrase.

Words near of one's word in the dictionary

  1. of one's choosing
  2. of one's making
  3. of one's own
  4. of one's own accord
  5. of one's own making
  6. of one's word
  7. of ours
  8. of record
  9. of service
  10. of some use
  11. of someone's dreams

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