loyalty

«loyalty» in Mova's school dictionary: being faithful and supportive to a person, group, team or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (loyalty — uncountable; loyalties)

meaning for a pupil

1) Loyalty is being faithful and supportive to a person, group, team or country, and sticking with them. tree →

2) Loyalties are the people or things you feel loyal to. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and PSHE lessons loyalty is a value: good friends are loyal, keep promises and stand up for each other. Dogs are famous for loyalty. In everyday life shops have «loyalty cards» that give points to customers who come back. In stories a hero may have to choose between loyalty to a friend and doing what is right. Phrases: «loyalty to», «a sense of loyalty», «loyalty card», «divided loyalties».

examples

• Dogs are known for their loyalty. tree →
• She showed great loyalty to her friends. tree →
• Loyalty means sticking with your team even when it loses. tree →
• Mum collects points on her loyalty card. tree →
• The knight swore loyalty to the king. tree →
• He felt torn between loyalty to his friend and telling the truth. tree →
• Loyalty is an important part of friendship. tree →
• The fans' loyalty never changed. tree →
• All the people were most anxious to show their loyalty, and to enjoy themselves at the same time. tree →

note

Uncountable usually. Adjective: loyal. Opposite: disloyalty. Trap: loyalty does not mean keeping a harmful secret — telling a trusted adult when someone is in danger is the right thing to do.

In the corpora

• Loyalty to a friend does not mean lying for them; covering up can let harm go on and drags you into the trouble.
• Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.
• Loyalty means being kind to a friend, not covering up harm they did.
• Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; you can stay kind to a friend without covering up harm.
• Real loyalty means caring for people and being honest with them, not obeying a group no matter what.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «loyalty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.