English

Noun

cred ‎(plural creds)

1. (urban, slang) 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, Popular Science (volume 261, number 5, November 2002, 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) credential

   1998, "Lou Langholtz", DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? (on newsgroup comp.soft-sys.dce)

Derived terms

• street cred

Anagrams

• CDRE
• rec'd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• credu

Etymology

From Latin crēdō. Compare Daco-Romanian crede, cred.

Verb

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

1. I believe.

Synonyms

• pistipsescu (more common)

Related terms

• creadiri/creadire, crideari/crideare
• cridzut
• cridzui
• ncred/ãncred

Manx

Verb

cred ‎(verbal noun credjal, past participle credjit)

1. Alternative form of creid

Mutation

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [krɛd]

Verb

cred

1. first-person singular present tense form of crede.

   Cred că ești Diavolul, copil.

   I believe that you are the Devil, child.

2. first-person singular subjunctive form 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 tense form of crede.

   Ei nu cred că suntem toți copiii lui Dumnezeu.

   They don't believe that we are all the children of God.