true

true
adj.

1) historically true

2) true to (true to one's principles)

3) true that + clause (it is not true that she has resigned)

* * *
[truː]
historically true
true that + clause (it is not true that she has resigned)
true to (true to one's principles)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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