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Brave   /breɪv/   Listen
adjective
Brave  adj.  (compar. braver; superl. bravest)  
1.
Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
2.
Having any sort of superiority or excellence; especially such as in conspicuous. (Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.) "Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth." "It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall."
3.
Making a fine show or display. (Archaic) "Wear my dagger with the braver grace." "For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color." "Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots."
Synonyms: Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold; heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous; high-spirited; stout-hearted. See Gallant.



verb
Brave  v. t.  (past & past part. braved; pres. part. braving)  
1.
To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare. "These I can brave, but those I can not bear."
2.
To adorn; to make fine or showy. (Obs.) "Thou (a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating) hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved."



noun
Brave  n.  
1.
A brave person; one who is daring. "The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
2.
Specifically, an Indian warrior.
3.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. "Hot braves like thee may fight."
4.
A challenge; a defiance; bravado. (Obs.) "Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves."






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"Brave" Quotes from Famous Books



... they fall? the young, the proud, the brave, To swell one bloated Chiefs unwholesome reign?[75] No step between submission and a grave? The rise of Rapine and the fall of Spain? And doth the Power that man adores ordain Their doom, nor heed the suppliant's appeal? Is all that desperate ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... in a moment and said hastily, "No, dear child, no worse. But sit down with me and I will tell you all about it. You must promise not to mention it to grandmother, however, for we will have to be brave together." Then, sitting side by side in the pretty little blue bedroom where only a few months before so many joyous hours had been spent in fixing everything up daintily to meet the gaze of returned travelers, Aunt Alice related to young ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines

... made, counselling fight. And the men of the Whitefish listened, and some said one thing, and some another, and some spoke of other and worthless things, and no man made brave talk of deeds and war. But while the young men were weak as water and afraid, I watched that the old men sat silent, and that in their eyes fires came and went. And later, when the village slept and no one knew, I drew the old men away into the ...
— Children of the Frost • Jack London

... remarked Ruth, "the brave young man undid his pack and disclosed to the admiring eyes of the hungry lass—meaning me, especially the 'hungry'—the wonders of his pack, which she had been covertly eying amid all the perils ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... first printed, then translations of the best German books, reprints of Wycliffe's tracts or original commentaries. Such volumes as the people most required were here multiplied as fast as the press could produce them; and for the dissemination of these precious writings, the brave London Protestants dared, at the hazard of their lives, to form themselves ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude


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