oath

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.

   “take an oath”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. isim A curse, a curse word.

   “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[…]”

5. fiil To pledge.