courage
Plural: courages
Noun
- The ability to confront fear or danger without being afraid.
- a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
- 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.
Examples
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- It took great courage to open up the triple word score for his opponent.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
braveness, bravery, courageousness, audacity, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bravehood, courage, daring, fearlessness, grit, guts, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, mood, nerve, ovaries, pecker, pluck, spunk, steel, undauntedness, valour
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
courage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcourage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
courage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary