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A core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.
- 1955, F. Schmidl, "The problem of scientific validation in psycho-analytic interpretation," International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, vol 36 no 2 (Mar/Apr), pp. 105-113. This statement will be unacceptable to many biographers and historians, but there seems to be a definite kernel of truth in it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grain of truth
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Dutch:
kern van waarheid
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Finnish:
totuuden jyvä
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French:
part de vérité
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French:
fond de vérité
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Georgian:
ჭეშმარიტების მარცვალი
(č̣ešmariṭebis marcvali)
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Georgian:
სიმართლის მარცვალი
(simartlis marcvali)
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German:
Körnchen Wahrheit
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Hungarian:
szemernyi igazság
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Icelandic:
sannleikskorn
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Irish:
iarracht den fhírinne
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Italian:
fondo di verità
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Polish:
ziarno prawdy
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Russian:
зерно́ и́стины
(zernó ístiny)
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Swedish:
korn av sanning
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