Meanings
prepositional phrase
- That keeps promises and tells the truth.
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 11 more example
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
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 言出必行的
- 言出必行的 (yánchūbìxíng de)that keeps promises and tells the truth
Finnish sanansa mittainen
- sanansa mittainenthat keeps promises and tells the truth
French de parole
- de parolethat keeps promises and tells the truth
Hungarian szavatartó
- szavatartóthat keeps promises and tells the truth
Italian di parola
- di parolathat keeps promises and tells the truth
Polish słowny
- słownythat keeps promises and tells the truth
Russian челове́к сло́ва
- челове́к сло́ва (čelovék slóva)that keeps promises and tells the truth
Spanish de palabra
- de palabrathat keeps promises and tells the truth
Turkish sözünün eri
- sözünün erithat keeps promises and tells the truth
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