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sojourner

/trooth/US // truθ //UK // (truːθ) //

流浪者,旅居者,过客,流浪汉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural truths [troothz, trooths]. /truðz, truθs/.

    • : the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
    • : conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
    • : a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.
    • : the state or character of being true.
    • : actuality or actual existence.
    • : an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.
    • : ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience: the basic truths of life.
    • : agreement with a standard or original.
    • : accuracy, as of position or adjustment.
    • : honesty; sincerity; truthfulness.
    • : Archaic. fidelity or constancy.

Phrases

  • truth is stranger than fiction
  • truth will out
  • gospel truth
  • home truth
  • moment of truth
  • naked truth
  • unvarnished truth

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Barbour actively backed six-term incumbent Thad Cochran for re-election and Sojourner ran the campaign of McDaniel.

  • The occasion was the unveiling of the bust of abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

  • No princess could have received a drawing-room with more composed (p. 236) dignity than Sojourner her audience.

  • I rose and announced 'Sojourner Truth,' and begged the audience to keep silence a few moments.

  • Then Blent had been the centre of his life, and in town he was but a stranger and a sojourner.

  • But with living on there, day after day, the acute sojourner became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle.

  • The most part accounted for his turn of mind by the fact that ere he came to Virginia he had been a sojourner in New England.