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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary is based on the world’s largest collection of information about the way the English language is written and spoken in our time—a citation file of over 14½ million examples of English words drawn from actual use, more than 1 million collected since the last edition. The volume also includes: well-drafted Definitions and Pronunciations, Extensive...

〈true description〉 (2) : conformable to an essential reality (3) : fully realized or fulfilled 〈dreams come true〉 b : IDEAL, ESSENTIAL c : being that which is the case rather than what is manifest or assumed 〈the true dimension of the problem〉 d : CONSISTENT 〈true to character〉 3 a : properly so called 〈true love〉 〈the true faith〉 〈the true stomach of ruminant mammals〉 3 b (1) : possessing the basic characters of and belonging to the same natural group as 〈a whale is a true but not a typical mammal〉