courage
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
The English word “courage” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
- The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.
verb
- To encourage.
Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
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More English words
- coupé de ville
- coupé utility
- cour
- cour d'honneur
- courage of one's convictions
- couraged
- courageless
- couragelessness
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