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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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Etymology of 'Brave'

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"Brave" Quotes from Famous Books

... brethren and descendants of the departed to imitate their virtue, and consoling their fathers and mothers and the survivors, if any, who may chance to be alive of the previous generation. What sort of a word will this be, and how shall we rightly begin the praises of these brave men? In their life they rejoiced their own friends with their valour, and their death they gave in exchange for the salvation of the living. And I think that we should praise them in the order in which nature made them good, for they were good because they were sprung from good fathers. Wherefore ...

— Menexenus • Plato

... moon, we saw a terrible battle going on: our brave dogs were surrounded by a dozen jackals, three or four were extended dead, but our faithful animals were nearly overpowered by numbers when we arrived. I was glad to find nothing worse than jackals; Fritz and I fired on them; two fell dead, and the others fled slowly, evidently wounded. ...

— The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island • Johann David Wyss

... confederate powers, The counsel of the accomplish'd Prince pursued, 140 Polydamas, one Chief alone except, Asius Hyrtacides. He scorn'd to leave His charioteer and coursers at the trench, And drove toward the fleet. Ah, madly brave! His evil hour was come; he was ordain'd 145 With horse and chariot and triumphant shout To enter wind-swept Ilium never more. Deucalion's offspring, first, into the shades Dismiss'd him; by Idomeneus he died. Leftward he drove ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... man!" said Natalie Lind, quickly and passionately, with a flash of pride in her eyes. "The brave man! If I had a brother, I would ask him, 'When will you show the courage ...

— Sunrise • William Black

... Ted's going with the quiet fortitude with which his uncle met it. Those early weeks of nineteen hundred and seventeen were black ones for many. The grim Moloch War demanded more and ever more victims. Thousands of gay, brave, high spirited lads like Ted were mown down daily by shrapnel and machine gun or sent twisted and writhing to still more hideous death in the unspeakable horror of noxious gases. It was all so unnecessary—so senseless. Larry Holiday whose life was dedicated to the healing and saving of men's ...

— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

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