noun
- A fact that has been verified.
- usage: "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"
- Conformity to reality or actuality.
- usage: "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"
- A true statement.
- usage: "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
- synonyms: true statement
- The quality of being near to the true value.
- usage: "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"
- synonyms: accuracy
- United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883. ).
- synonyms: Sojourner Truth
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