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say it: troo
true is an adjective, noun, verb and adverb meaning "consistent with fact or reality; not false". It is pronounced /ˈtɹu/ — troo. It carries 15 recorded senses.
accurately placed or thrown
“his aim was true”
“he was dead on target”
devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
“true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them”
conforming to definitive criteria
“the horseshoe crab is not a true crab”
“Pythagoras was the first true mathematician”
worthy of being depended on
“a dependable worker”
“an honest working stiff”
“a reliable source of information”
“he was true to his word”
“I would be true for there are those who trust me”
rightly so called
“true courage”
“a spirit which true men have always admired”
“a true friend”
determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
“true north is geographic north”
proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
“out of true”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for true come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.