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embolden

English

Etymology

em- +? bold +? -en

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?b??ld?n/
    Rhymes: -??ld?n

Verb

embolden (third-person singular simple present emboldens, present participle emboldening, simple past and past participle emboldened)

  1. (transitive) To render (someone) bolder or more courageous.
    • 2020, William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis, Pearson, p. 334
      The author lamented that the power of techniques involving instrumental variables and natural experiments to uncover causal relationships had emboldened economists to venture into areas far from their traditional expertise [...].
  2. (transitive) To encourage, inspire, or motivate.
  3. (transitive, typography) To format text in boldface.
    Synonym: boldface

Translations

References

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bold

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??ld/, [b??ld]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bo?ld/
  • Rhymes: -??ld
  • Homophone: bowled

Etymology 1

From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple), from Proto-Germanic *budl?, *buþl? (house, dwelling), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (to grow, wax, swell) or *b?uH-.

Cognate with Old Frisian bold (house) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (house)), North Frisian bodel, budel (property, inheritance), Middle Low German b?del (property, real estate). Related to build.

Alternative forms

  • bolde, boolde (both obsolete)

Noun

bold (plural bolds)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
Related terms
  • bottle
  • build

Etymology 2

From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (strong, bold), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el-, *b?l?- (to bloat, swell, bubble).

Cognate with Dutch boud (bold, courageous, fearless), Middle High German balt (bold) (whence German bald (soon)), Swedish båld (bold, dauntless). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (forehead) and Old Prussian balo (forehead). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (to face, to deal with), sfrontato (bold, daring, insolent), both from Latin frons (forehead).

Adjective

bold (comparative bolder, superlative boldest)

  1. Courageous, daring.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.
      It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  2. Visually striking; conspicuous.
    the painter's bold use of colour and outline
  3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  4. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
    • [] even the bolde?t and mo?t affirmative Philo?ophy, which has ever attempted to impo?e its crude Dictates and Principles on Mankind.
  5. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
    All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
  6. Full-bodied.
  7. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
  8. Steep or abrupt.
Synonyms
  • (courageous): audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward, doughty
  • See also Thesaurus:brave
Related terms
  • bield
  • bolden
  • boldness
  • embolden
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bolden, balden, from Old English baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþ?n?, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbald?n (to become bold, dare).

Verb

bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

  1. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
    • [] for this bu?ines,
      It touches vs, as France inuades our land
      Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,
      Mo?t iu?t and heauy cau?es make oppo?e.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.

Anagrams

  • BLOD

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bold, from 1940s-1970s bold films (exploitation film).

Adjective

bold

  1. naked, nude
  2. pornographic

Danish

Alternative forms

  • boldt (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Norse b?llr

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?b??l?d?]
  • Rhymes: -?ld

Noun

bold c (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

  1. ball

Declension

Derived terms

  • fodbold
  • tennisbold

Further reading

  • “bold” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “bold” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Old English

Etymology

Probably representing an earlier *bodl, *boþl, from Proto-West Germanic *b?þl, from Proto-Germanic *b?þl?, from an instrumental form of *b?an? (to dwell). Compare Old Norse ból. More at suffix -eld.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bold/, [bo?d]

Noun

bold n

  1. house, dwelling, building

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: bold
    • English: bold

Romanian

Etymology

From a Common Slavic root *bodli.

Noun

bold n (plural bolduri)

  1. pin

Derived terms

  • îmboldi

See also

  • ac

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