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See also: c'red

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹɛd/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛd

Noun

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

  1. (originally slang, uncountable) Credibility.
    After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
    • 2002 November, Popular Science, volume 261, number 5, page 48:
      Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file.
  2. (computing, informal, usually in the plural) A credential.
    • 1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):
      DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?
  3. (science fiction, slang) A credit (currency unit).
    • 2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three:
      And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]

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Aromanian

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Etymology

From Latin crēdō. Compare Romanian crede, cred.

Verb

cred first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative creadi or creade, past participle cridzutã)

  1. to believe

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Chinese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From clipping of English credit.

Pronunciation

Noun

cred

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) credit
    唔夠cred畢業／唔够cred毕业 [Cantonese]  ―  m4 gau3 kwet1 bat1 jip6   ―  not enough credits for graduation

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian credere, from Latin.

Verb

cred

  1. to believe

Manx

Verb

cred (verbal noun credjal, past participle credjit)

  1. Alternative form of creid

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cred chred gred
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

cred

  1. first-person singular present indicative of crede
    Cred că ești Diavolul, copile.
    I believe that you are the Devil, child.
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of crede
    Nu pot să cred că fratele lui e atât de prost.
    I can't believe his brother is so stupid.
  3. third-person plural present indicative of crede
    Ei nu cred că suntem toți copiii lui Dumnezeu.
    They don't believe that we are all the children of God.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

cred f (plural credau)

  1. belief, creed

Verb

cred (literary)

  1. inflection of credu:
    1. third-person singular present indicative/future
    2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cred gred nghred chred
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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