Word a Day
faith
What does faith mean?
faith (noun): complete confidence in a person or plan etc.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce faith?
/feɪθ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does faith come from?
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “faith” mean?
an economic role for which a person is paid
Not quite: that's what job means.
complete confidence in a person or plan etc
Right! That's what “faith” means.
systematic investigation to establish facts
Not quite: that's what research means.
the people who inhabit a territory or state
Not quite: that's what population means.
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