of one's word

English

Prepositional phrase

of one's word

1. That keeps promises and tells the truth.
   • 1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass, →ISBN, page 1:

     She never needed to show them to us — we knew, just as the adults did, that Dadi was a woman of her word.

   • 2012, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, →ISBN, page 143:

     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.

Usage notes

• The phrase is only used immediately following a common noun (usually man, woman or person), which then cannot have a definite determiner such as the or this.

Translations

that keeps promises and tells the truth

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 言出必行的 (yánchūbìxíng de)

• Finnish: sanansa mittainen
• French: de parole
• Georgian: (man of one's word:) სიტყვის კაცი (siṭq̇vis ḳaci)
• Hungarian: szavatartó (hu)
• Italian: di parola
• Polish: słowny (pl)
• Russian: (person of one's word:) челове́к сло́ва m (čelovék slóva)
• Spanish: de palabra
• Turkish: sözünün eri

See also

• good as one's word