Are Sodium Acetate and Sodium Cyanide Solutions Acidic or Basic?

[Jules18]

Here's the question:

The ionization constant for acetic acid is 1.8E-5; that for hydrocyanic acid is 4E-10. In 0.1 M solutions of sodium acetate and sodium cyanide, it is true that:

And the answer is:

[OH-] of the sodium acetate solution is less than that of the sodium cyanide solution.

Which makes sense to me, because acetic acid is the stronger acid. But there's another option in the list that it says is NOT true:

[H+] exceeds [OH-] in each solution.

I thought this might be true, because both are solutions of chemicals that were referred to as acids.
Am I missing the definition of an acid?

 

[Borek]

Acetate and cyanide are not acids. These are Brønsted-Lowry's bases.


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[Ygggdrasil]

I thought this might be true, because both are solutions of chemicals that were referred to as acids.
Am I missing the definition of an acid?

That would be true if they were talking about solutions of acetic acid or hydrocyanic acid. However, they are talking about solutions of sodium acetate and sodium cyanide, the conjugate bases of the aforementioned acids.