truth

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Conformity to fact or actuality.
2. n. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.
3. n. Sincerity; integrity.
4. n. Fidelity to an original or standard.
5. n. Reality; actuality.
6. n. That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The state or character of being true; trueness. Conformity of thought with fact; conformity of a judgment, statement, or belief with the reality; exact correspondence of subjective and objective relations.
2. n. The state of being made true or exact; exact conformity to a model, rule, or plan; accuracy of adjustment; exact adaptation.
3. n. In the fine arts, the proper and correct representation of any object in nature, or of whatever subject may be under treatment; specifically, in architecture, avoidance of deceits in construction or decoration, as of non-concordance of apparent and real structure, or of imitation of stone or marble in paint or plaster.
4. n. Habitual disposition to speak only what is true; veracity; purity from falsehood; truthfulness; sincerity; uprightness; honesty: as, a man of truth.
5. n. Disposition to be faithful; fidelity; constancy.
6. n. The state of not being counterfeited or adulterated; genuineness; purity.
7. n. That which is true. Fact; reality; verity: as, a lover of truth: often personified.
8. n. A verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like.
9. n. That which is righteous or in accordance with the divine standard.
10. n. Faith pledged; pledge; troth. See troth.
11. n. Synonyms See reality.
12. To affirm or declare truthfully.

Wiktionary

1. n. The state or quality of being true to someone or something
2. n. archaic Faithfulness, fidelity.
3. n. obsolete A pledge of loyalty or faith.
4. n. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
5. n. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
6. n. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
7. n. Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
8. n. physics A now-outdated term for topness. (See also truth quark.)
9. v. obsolete, transitive To assert as true; to declare.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
2. n. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
3. n. Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
4. n. The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
5. n. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
6. n. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like.
7. n. Righteousness; true religion.
8. v. rare To assert as true; to declare.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a true statement
2. n. a fact that has been verified
3. n. conformity to reality or actuality
4. n. 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)
5. n. the quality of being near to the true value