truth

/tɹuːθ//tɹuθ/

truth noun: true facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

Noun (1)

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

(usually) True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
- The truth is that our leaders knew a lot more than they were letting on.
- The truth depends on, and is only arrived at, by a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.1831 December 27, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Beauty—Genius”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John...
(usually) Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
- There was some truth in his statement that he had no other choice.
- As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 31
(usually) The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
- Truth to one's own feelings is all-important in life.
(archaic, usually) Faithfulness, fidelity.
- Alas! they had been friends in youth; / But whispering tongues can poison truth; […]1800, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part II.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC...
(obsolete, usually) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
(usually) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
- Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
- The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.1840, Joseph Whitworth, A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes
(usually) That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
- The truth is what is.
- Alcoholism and redemption led me finally to truth.
(countable, usually) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
- Hunger and jealousy are just eternal truths of human existence.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
(dated, usually) Topness; the property of a truth quark.
(usually) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.
- When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

(obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- You were sitting with your family Thanksgiving, belly full of turkey and pie, surrounded by the love of your extended crime family, but your initial instinct was to truth a slur at Tim Walz?2025 December 1, Jon Stewart, “Trump Berates Reporters, Gets Mystery MRI & Closes Border to (Non-White) Immigrants”https://youtu.be/4STrDD7leEM?t=325s, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
- A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226
- As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, page cxxvi
(intransitive, nonstandard) To tell the truth.
- You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

Noun (2) capitalized: Truth

Truth (plural Truths)

(social media) An entry posted on the Truth Social platform.
- The app's design looks like a clone of Twitter. Users can create a profile that shows who they're following. You're able to comment, share and like posts, which are called Truths.[2022 August 19, Queenie Wong, “Trump's Truth Social Sees Uptick in Users After FBI's Mar-a-Lago Search”, in CNET, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2022
- And yet, I still wasn’t adequately prepared for the immersive experience of scrolling through hundreds of his Truths and ReTruths. Even for Trump, this feed manages to shock.2024 September 24, Charlie Warzel, “The Trump Posts You Probably Aren’t Seeing”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024

truth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

truth in Hindi

true facts: सच sac, सत्य satya
conformity to fact or reality: सच sac, सत्य satya
state or quality of being true to someone or something: सच sac, सचाई sacāī
that which is real: सत्य satya

truth in Tamil

state or quality of being true to someone or something: உண்மை uṇmai

truth in Marathi

true facts: खरे khare
state or quality of being true to someone or something: खरं khara

truth in Urdu

true facts: سَچ sac, حَقِیقَت haqīqat
conformity to fact or reality: سَچ sac, حَقِیقَت haqīqat
state or quality of being true to someone or something: سچ sac, سچائی sacāī

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truth in Bengali: হকিকত hokikot, সত্য śotto, হক hok, সাঁচা śãca
truth in Telugu: వాస్తవ సంఘటన vāstava saṅghaṭana, నిరూజణ nirūjaṇa, నమ్మకము nammakamu, విశ్వాసము viśvāsamu
truth in Malayalam: സത്യം satyaṁ
truth in Kannada: ಸತ್ಯ satya
truth in Punjabi: ਸਤਿ sati
truth in Gujarati: સત્ય satya
truth in Odia: ସତ୍ଯ଼, ସତ୍ଯ଼ତା
truth in Sanskrit: तथ्य tathya, सत्य satya, सत्यता satyatā
truth in Sinhala: සත්යය satyaya
truth in Assamese: সঁচা xõsa, সঁচা কথা xõsa kotha
truth in Nepali: सत्य satya
truth in Pashto: رښتيا rix̌tyā
truth in Tagalog: katotohanan, totoo
truth in Arabic: حَقِيقَة ḥaqīqa
truth in Malay: kebenaran
truth in Indonesian: kebenaran
truth in Thai: ความจริง kwaam-jing, สัจธรรม
truth in Vietnamese: sự thật, chân lí, chân lý, tính trung thực
truth in Myanmar: အမှန်တရား a.hmanta.ra:
Sindhi: سچ پچ sc pc
Dhivehi: ޙަޤީޤަތް ḥaqīqat̊

Examples of truth in a sentence

The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2018:
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.1819 May, John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for...
This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, page 67:

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Forms of truth

Noun
plural	truths
plural	Truths
alternative form (obsolete)	trewth
Verb
third-person singular present	truths
present participle	truthing
past participle	truthed
past	truthed

Plural of truth: truths

Origin of truth

Inherited from Middle English trouthe, from Old English trēowþ, from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō, from *triwwiz + *-iþō. By surface analysis, true + -th. Doublet of troth. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

From the name of the platform, Truth Social.

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Questions about truth

What does truth mean?: Truth means true facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
What is truth in Hindi?: Truth in Hindi is सच (sac), सत्य (satya), सचाई (sacāī). See Truth meaning in Hindi.
How do you use truth in a sentence?: The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time.
What part of speech is truth?: Truth can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce truth?: Truth is pronounced /tɹuːθ/ (UK).
What is the plural of truth?: The plural of truth is truths.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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