believe
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
believe/bɪˈliːv/
▶verb
- 1 feel sure that (something) is true.
■ accept the statement of (someone) as true.
■ have religious faith.
- 2 (believe in) have faith in the truth or existence of.
- 3 (believe in) have confidence in.
- 4 think or suppose: I believe we've already met.
■ (believe in) think that (something) is right or acceptable.
– derivatives
believability noun,
believable adjective,
believably adverb,
believer noun.
believability noun,
believable adjective,
believably adverb,
believer noun.
– origin OE belȳfan, belēfan, alt. of gelēfan, of Gmc origin.
'believe' also found in these Oxford entries:
accept
- adhere
- approve
- belief
- confidence trick
- consider
- convince
- credence
- credible
- credit
- credo
- credulous
- deceive
- delude
- disbelieve
- doubting Thomas
- expect
- flatter
- gullible
- have
- illusion
- imagine
- incredible
- incredulous
- Kaffir
- make-believe
- miscreant
- non-believer
- opine
- opinion
- past
- persuade
- persuasive
- pretend
- probable cause
- put
- salt
- so
- suspect
- suspicious
- swallow
- tall
- thought police
- trow
- trust
- word
