TRUE TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does true to mean? 

• TRUE TO (adjective)
  The adjective TRUE TO has 1 sense:

1. sexually faithful

  Familiarity information: TRUE TO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE TO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sexually faithful

Context example:

she was true to her significant other

Similar:

faithful (not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend)

 Context examples 

My dear Agnes, do you doubt my being true to you?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then without a word we all knelt down together, and, all holding hands, swore to be true to each other.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No, said the Sultan; I will be true to my master.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I do no sin, for I am true to the promptings of the life that is in me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I saw the struggle upon my uncle’s face, but he was true to his principles.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the girl held true to me, and it seemed that I would have had her when the Mutiny broke out, and all hell was loose in the country.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing—what can disturb our peace?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be true to Hosmer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For two months, however, I was true to my determination; for two months, I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I should indeed love to look upon them,” Alleyne answered; “but I have come from Beaulieu for a purpose, and I must be true to my service, even as thou art true to thine.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)