trust
Forms
- Plural
- trusts
- present (v1)
- trust
- past (v2)
- trusted
- past participle (v3)
- trusted
- present participle
- trusting
- 3rd person singular
- trusts
Definitions
1.Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
- O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength!
- He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
2.Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- Such trust have we through Christ.
3.Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
- I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
4.That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
1.To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
- We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
- He that trusts without reserve will at last be deceived.
2.To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
3.To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- Trust me, you looke well.
4.To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
- I trust you have cleaned your room?
- We trust we have a good conscience.
- I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1243
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).