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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

creencia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /kɾeˈen.sja/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Belief/bɪˈliːf/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Esta creencia cultural se transmite de generación en generación."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.

    "His belief in the democratic process remains unshaken."
  2. 2

    Something one accepts as true or real, often forming part of an organized system of cultural, traditional, or religious thought.

    "Different societies hold distinct cultural beliefs regarding nature and community."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'belief' or 'bileve', influenced by Old English 'gelēafa' meaning trust or belief, and related to the verb 'believe' (from Proto-Germanic *galaubijan). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from a personal trust in someone to an accepted mental conviction regarding the truth of a proposition or cultural value.

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