English-Thai Dictionary

tenet

N ความเชื่อ ทาง ศาสนา หรือ การเมือง  belief view faith trust opinion kwam-chue-tang-sad-sa-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TENET

n.[L. tenet, he holds.] Any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine which a person believes or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. The tenets of christians are adopted from the Scriptures; but different interpretations give rise to a great diversity of tenets.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TENET

Ten "et, n. Etym: [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable. ]

 

Defn: Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, ... is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay.

 

Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

tenet

ten et |ˈtenit ˈtɛnət | ▶noun a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy: the tenets of classical liberalism. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (superseding earlier tenent ): from Latin, literally ‘he holds, ’ from the verb tenere.

 

Oxford Dictionary

tenet

tenet |ˈtɛnɪt, ˈtiːnɛt | ▶noun a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy: the tenets of classical liberalism. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (superseding earlier tenent ): from Latin, literally ‘he holds ’, from the verb tenere.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

tenet

tenet noun the fundamental tenet of the ideology: principle, belief, doctrine, precept, creed, credo, article of faith, axiom, dogma, canon; theory, thesis, premise, conviction, idea, view, opinion, position; (tenets ) ideology, code of belief, teaching (s ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

tenet

tenet noun recycling is a core tenet of the environmental faith: principle, belief, doctrine, precept, creed, credo, article of faith, dogma, canon, rule; theory, component of a theory, thesis, conviction, persuasion, idea, view, opinion, position, hypothesis, postulation, presumption; (tenets ) ideology, code of belief, teaching (s ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

tenet

ten et /ténɪt, tíːn -/名詞 C ｟かたく ｠(特に集団の )主義 (principle ); 信条 ; 教義 .