Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

    The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.

    I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.

    Vertrauen

    ве́раvéra, уве́ренностьuvérennostʹ

    complete confidence in a person or plan etc

  2. (countable, uncountable)A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

    I have faith that my prayers will be answered.

    I have faith in the healing power of crystals.

    Glaube

    ве́раvéra

    ві́раvíra

  3. (countable, metonymically, uncountable)A religious or spiritual belief system.

    The Christian faith.

    We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?

    Glaube

    ве́раvéra, вероиспове́даниеveroispovédanije, конфе́ссияkonféssija

    ві́раvíra, віросповіда́нняvirospovidánnja, конфе́сіяkonfésija

  4. (countable, uncountable)An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

    He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.

    ве́раvéra

  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Credibility or truth.

    1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

Examples

513 sentences
  1. He has lost faith in the doctor.

    Він уже не довіряє лікарю.

    ruОн потерял веру во врача.

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  2. I have faith in you, Tom.

    Я вірю у тебе, Томе.

    deIch habe Vertrauen in dich, Tom.

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  3. We haven't lost our faith in Tom.

    Ми не втратили віри в Тома.

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  4. Have faith in yourself.

    Вір у себе.

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  5. What faith are you?

    Яка твоя релігія?

    ruКакой вы веры?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
feeling that something is true:
religious belief system:
Русский
By meaning 2
confidence in the intentions or abilities:
religious belief system:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
confidence in the intentions or abilities:
feeling that something is true:

Origin

From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem

From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Doublet of foy. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief.

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Forms

plural: faiths
Singularfaith
Pluralfaiths

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen:beliefB1confidenceB1trustB2convictionC1
system of religious belief
Close in meaning

Word family

43 related words

Collocations

11 patterns
  • have faith in
  • complete faith in
  • lost faith in
  • have complete faith
  • lot of faith
  • more faith in
  • have more faith
  • complete faith
  • of faith in
  • lost faith
  • more faith

See also

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