Dictionary

of one's word en · ADP

Meanings

1. That keeps promises and tells the truth.
   • Dean is a great guy and is always helping someone. He is a man of his word, very respectable, and highly intelligent. But he is not the kind of man you would want to cross if you know what I mean. 2012, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, →ISBN, page 143:
   • She never needed to show them to us — we knew, just as the adults did, that Dadi was a woman of her word. 1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass, →ISBN, page 1:

Relateds

good as one's word

Translations (10)

ru челове́к сло́ва (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · tr sözünün eri (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · es de palabra (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · hu szavatartó (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · it di parola (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · pl słowny (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · cmn 言出必行的 (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · fr de parole (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · ka სიტყვის კაცი (that keeps promises and tells the truth) · fi sanansa mittainen (that keeps promises and tells the truth)