Brave: Definition and part of speech

Brave

  1. n. A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
  2. superl. Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; — opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
  3. superl. Having any sort of superiority or excellence; — especially such as in conspicuous.
  4. superl. Making a fine show or display.
  5. n. A brave person; one who is daring.
  6. n. Specifically, an Indian warrior.
  7. n. A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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