
Traust
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Etymology
From Old Norse traust
Pronunciation:
- IPA: /tɹʌst/
Noun
trust (plural trusts)
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Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
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Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
- 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.
- (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
- (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
- A group of businessmen or traders organized for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
hope
Pronunciation
Noun
hope (countable and uncountable; plural hopes)
- (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- I still have some hope that I can get to work on time.
- (countable) The actual thing wished for
- (countable)
A person or thing that is a source of hope
- We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
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(in Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good
- But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. (1Cor. 13:13)
Conclusion
Confidence
Dependence
Hopefuturegood
source of hope
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