Pronunciation Noun
oath (plural oaths)
- A solemn pledge or promise, appealing to a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest to the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (ISBN 9781681225296):
- But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.
- 2011, Mark Leyne, "The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel ↗
- There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.
- 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (ISBN 9781681225296):
- A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
- The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
- A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
- A curse, a curse word.
- 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:
- The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]
- 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:
- bloody oath (Australian slang)
- fucking oath (Australian slang)
- French: serment
- German: Eid, Schwur
- Italian: giuramento
- Portuguese: juramento, jura, promessa
- Russian: прися́га
- Spanish: juramento
- German: Eid
- Italian: giuramento
- Portuguese: juramento
- Russian: кля́тва
oath (oaths, present participle oathing; past and past participle oathed)
- (archaic) To pledge.
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