testament

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Proof or clear evidence that something is true or that someone has a quality.

   Her quick recovery is a testament to the skill of the doctors.

2. 2
   noun

   A legal document that says how a person's property should be shared out after they die.

   In his will and testament he left the house to his daughter.

3. 3
   noun

   One of the two main parts of the Christian Bible, the Old Testament or the New Testament.

   The story of Noah's ark comes from the Old Testament.

From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“to be a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

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