different between bravery vs nobility

English

Etymology

French braverie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?e?v.?.?i/, /?b?e?v.?i/

Noun

bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)

1. (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
2. (countable) A brave act.
3. Splendor, magnificence
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:

     Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

     And make me travel forth without my cloak,

     To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,

     Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

   • In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon

Synonyms

• (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage

Related terms

• bravado
• brave
• bravure

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French nobilité, from Latin nobilitas.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /no??b?l?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n???b?l?ti/, /n??b?l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

nobility (countable and uncountable, plural nobilities)

1. A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.

   Synonyms: aristocracy, noblesse, upper class

   Antonym: plebeian

2. (uncountable) The quality of being noble.

   Synonyms: aristocracy, nobleness, noblesse

   Antonyms: meanness, ignobility

Translations

Anagrams

• biotinyl