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faith is a noun:

  1. Mental acceptance of and confidence in a claim as truth without proof supporting the claim.
    "I have faith in the healing power of crystals."
  2. (Christian theology) Belief and trust in the Christian God's promises revealed through Christ in the New Testament.
  3. A feeling or belief, that something is true, real, or will happen.
    "Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder."
  4. A trust in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or belief in spite of a lack of knowledge in the person, object, or belief.
    "I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man."
  5. A system of religious belief.
    "The Christian faith has been spread by proselytizing."
  6. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity.
  7. The observance of such an obligation.
    "He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent."

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What type of word is faith?

As detailed above, 'faith' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
  2. Noun usage: Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.
  3. Noun usage: I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
  4. Noun usage: The Christian faith has been spread by proselytizing.
  5. Noun usage: He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of faith are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of faith, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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