Meanings
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1
verb
To believe that someone is honest and will not harm you.
You can trust her with any secret.
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2
noun
The belief that someone is honest and reliable.
He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
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3
verb
To hope and expect something to be true.
I trust you will behave better from now on.
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4
noun
Money or property looked after by one person for the benefit of another.
She receives money from a trust set up by her parents.
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Etymology
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, sola…
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