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brave
English
Etymology
From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).
Pronunciation
- enPR: br?v, IPA(key): /b?e?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
Adjective
brave (comparative braver, superlative bravest)
- Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
- Synonyms: bold, daring, doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart
- Antonyms: cowardly, fearful, mean, weak
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Chapter 21:
- Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
- 1987, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:
- […] he has been so brave, giving it all a dignity.
- (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
- Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
- February 18, 1666, Samuel Pepys,, diary entry
- It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations
- Making a fine show or display.
- 1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque
- For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
- 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day
- Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 1611, John Cooke, Greene's Tu Quoque
Synonyms
- (courageous): See also Thesaurus:brave
Translations
Noun
brave (plural braves)
- (dated) A Native American warrior.
- (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
- 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence
- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence
- (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
Translations
Verb
brave (third-person singular simple present braves, present participle braving, simple past and past participle braved)
- (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- For Cassius is aweary of the world;
- Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
- Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
- Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,
- To cast into my teeth.
- 1670, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards:
- The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear,
- These I can brave, but those I cannot bear […]
- 1773, A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, Number 53, December 2
- […] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:
- (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
- ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):
- Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave
- not me. I will neither be faced nor braved.
- ca. 1590–92, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3 (addressed to a tailor; first use in sense of "adorn", second and third uses in sense of "confront"):
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Baver
Esperanto
Etymology 1
brava +? -e
Adverb
brave
- bravely, valiantly
Etymology 2
From Italian bravo.
Interjection
brave
- bravo
French
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Italian bravo. Compare Spanish, Portuguese bravo. Doublet of bravo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?av/
Adjective
brave (plural braves)
- brave
- honest
Synonyms
- courageux
- bon
- honnête
- preux
Noun
brave m (plural braves)
- hero
Related terms
Further reading
- “brave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- baver
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?v?
Adjective
brave
- inflection of brav:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
brave
- feminine plural of bravo
Norman
Etymology
From Late Latin *bravus.
Adjective
brave m or f
- brave
Derived terms
- bravement (“bravely”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
brave
- definite singular/plural of brav
Pali
Alternative forms
Verb
brave
- first-person singular present/imperative middle of br?ti (“to say”)
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noble
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from n?scere, gn?scere (“to know”).
Displaced native Middle English athel (“noble”) (from Old English æþele) and Middle English hathel, hathelle (“noble, nobleman”) (from the merger of Old English æþele (“nobleman”) and Old English hæleþ (“hero”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??b?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?no?b?l/
- Rhymes: -??b?l
- Hyphenation: no?ble
Noun
noble (plural nobles)
- An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. [from 14th c.]
- Antonyms: commoner, plebeian
- (historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. [from 14th c.]
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 93:
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:nobleman
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
noble (comparative nobler or more noble, superlative noblest or most noble)
- Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
- Synonyms: great, honorable
- Antonyms: despicable, ignoble, mean, vile
- Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
- Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
- Synonym: superior
- Antonyms: inferior, plebeian
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- honorable
Further reading
- noble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- noble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- noble at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Bolen, Nobel
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin n?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?n?.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?n?.ble/
Adjective
noble (masculine and feminine plural nobles)
- noble
Derived terms
- gas noble
- noblement
- noblesa
Noun
noble m or f (plural nobles)
- noble
Further reading
- “noble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “noble” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “noble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “noble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin n?bilis according to the TLFi dictionary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?bl/
Adjective
noble (plural nobles)
- noble, aristocratic
- (of material) non-synthetic, natural; fine
- noble, worthy (thoughts, cause etc.)
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: nobel
- ? German: nobel
Noun
noble m or f (plural nobles)
- noble (person who is noble)
References
- “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?no?bl?/
Adjective
noble
- inflection of nobel:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis.
Adjective
noble
- noble
Descendants
- English: noble
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin n?bilis.
Adjective
noble m or f (plural nobles)
- noble
Old French
Etymology
From Latin n?bilis.
Adjective
noble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noble)
- noble; upper-class; well-bred
- Synonyms: avenant, cortois
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin n?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?noble/, [?no.??le]
Adjective
noble (plural nobles)
- noble
Derived terms
Related terms
- nobleza
Swedish
Adjective
noble
- absolute definite natural masculine form of nobel.
Anagrams
- Nobel, nobel
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