testament
noun
formal uk
/ˈtes.tə.mənt/ us
/ˈtes.tə.mənt/Meaning of testament in English
(Definition of testament from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
testament | American Dictionary
proof of something:
[ C usually sing ] He is a walking testament to the value of hard work.
testament | Business English
testament
noun
uk
/ˈtestəmənt/ us
be (a) testament to sth These positive results are a testament to the strength of the technology sector.
Compare
Examples of testament
testament
We need courage to recognize these as far more useful for life in the role of testaments and 'witnesses'.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The composition of testaments needs to be understood within the context of the larger impact of the spread of literacy in the indigenous world.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Therefore, rather than totting up the numbers of testaments, an attempt was made to study replacement rates based on the sample wills.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The value of testaments for the study of social topography is undisputed.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
A disproportionate percentage of indigenous testaments represent the established nobility and the well-off, as might be expected.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Second, it examines the impact that the composition of testaments had on the indigenous members of the colonial societies.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Every contribution adds materially to a deeper understanding of indigenous testaments.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
A triad of structures located in the heart of the town still stand as testaments to its past importance.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
How are gifts and testaments to be handled?
From the Cambridge English Corpus
During the later 1990s, the practice of making legal agreements (testaments) by family firms increased.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The exegesis of the content of the testaments reveals surely as much as can be known about the individual testators and their lives.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Thirty years ago, a group of six books on ruling monarchies would have been considered the last testaments of an endangered anachronism.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In all these testaments, it is hard to escape the conclusion that they were conceived, at least in part, as public statements for a wider audience.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Although hospitals drew an increasing amount of support and publicity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this trend is not always corroborated by some recent studies of charitable testaments.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
After 1884, more men through their testaments favoured their daughters than their sons.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations of testament
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
