name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
troth
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɹəʊθ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɹɒθ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /tɹoʊθ/
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General-American: /tɹɔθ/
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rhymes with -əʊθ
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rhymes with -ɒθ
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rhymes with -oʊθ
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rhymes with -ɔθ
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CMU ARPABET: T R OW1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: T R AO1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable
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noun
Meaning 3
An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.
A pledge or promise to marry someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable
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noun
Meaning 4
An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.
The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable
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noun
Meaning 5
Truth; something true.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
To pledge to marry somebody.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
a solemn pledge of fidelity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plight
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: assurance, pledge
noun
Meaning 8
a mutual promise to marry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: betrothal, engagement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: promise
Narrower terms: ringing
History
Etymology
From troth, a nickname for someone who was inclined to take oaths.
From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обещание (obeštanie) — oath, pledge or promise
- Bulgarian: честна дума (čestna duma) — oath, pledge or promise
- German: Treuegelöbnis — oath, pledge or promise
- German: Treueversprechen — oath, pledge or promise
- German: Treueeid — oath, pledge or promise
- German: Treue — oath, pledge or promise
- Norwegian: troskapsed — oath, pledge or promise
- Polish: przysięga — oath, pledge or promise
- Polish: obietnica — oath, pledge or promise
- Russian: честное сло́во (čestnoje slóvo) — oath, pledge or promise
- Bulgarian: обещание за женитба (obeštanie za ženitba) — pledge or promise to marry someone
- German: Eheversprechen — pledge or promise to marry someone
- Polish: przysięga zaślubin — pledge or promise to marry someone
- Bulgarian: годеж (godež) — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
- German: Verlobung — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
- Norwegian: forlovelse — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
- Persian: وفا (vafâ) — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
- Polish: zaręczyny — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
- Russian: помо́лвка (pomólvka) — state of being pledged to marry someone; betrothal, engagement
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