trust
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.
Inflected forms:
form: trusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: trustest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: trustedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: trusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trusteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: trust
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: trusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: more trust
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trust
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
to lose trust in someone
build up trust
a relationship built on mutual trust
taking things upon trust.
O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength!
gloss: Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such trust have we through Christ.
gloss: Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
gloss: That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.
gloss: Trustworthiness, reliability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that
will put me in trust
17th century, John Denham, Of Justice
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
gloss: The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I put the house into my sister's trust.
gloss: An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In God We Trust
Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes and trust in me
gloss: To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Trust me, you looke well.
gloss: To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I trust you have cleaned your room?
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
We trust we have a good conscience.
gloss: to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
gloss: To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
gloss: To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
gloss: To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
with-to
examples: to trust to luck
Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
gloss: To risk; to venture confidently.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
gloss: To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: More ſhould I queſtion thee, and more I muſt, / Though more to know, could not be more to truſt: […]
I will trust and not be afraid.
gloss: To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: Secure, safe.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Faithful, dependable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: of or relating to a trust.
pos: adj
Synonyms: belief
confidence
faith
expectation
hope
Antonyms: distrust
mistrust
untrust
wantrust
Derived words: betrust
foretrust
mistrust
never trust me
overtrust
trustability
trustable
trustee
truster
trust everybody, but cut the cards
trusting
trust me bro
trustor
trust someone across the street
trust someone as far as one can spit
trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
trust someone as far as one could spit
trust someone as far as one could throw them
trust someone to
trust the process
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