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Meaning of courage | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈkʌ.ɹɪdʒ

Definitions

  1. The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
    uncountable, usually
  2. courage, guts, initiative
  3. The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate
  4. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
    uncountable, usually
  5. vulva; vagina
  6. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening
  7. 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
  8. 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.
    uncountable, usually
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Equivalents

Afrikaans dapperheid
Azərbaycanca cəsarət
বাংলা সাহস
Català coratge valor
Dansk mod tapperhed
Esperanto kuraĝo
Euskara kemen
Suomi pokka rohkeus urheus urhoollisuus
Français bravoure coeur courage courage Vaillance
Gaeilge misneach sprid
Gàidhlig tapachd
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi koa
עברית אומץ לב אמץ
Magyar bátorság
Bahasa Indonesia keberanian nyali tulang punggung
Íslenska hugrekki kjarkur
Italiano coraggio
한국어 담력 배심 배짱 용감 용기
Kurdî cesaret
Кыргызча кайрат
Lëtzebuergesch Mutt
Lingála mpiko
Lietuvių drąsa
Latviešu drosme
Malagasy herim-po
Te Reo Māori toa
Македонски смелост храброст
മലയാളം ധൈര്യം
Монгол эр зориг
मराठी धाडस
Bahasa Melayu keberanian
Malti kuraġġ
မြန်မာဘာသာ သူရသတ္တိ
Nederlands dapperheid moed
Português audácia coração coragem valentia
Română curaj
Slovenčina odvaha
Slovenščina pogum
Shqip guxim trimëri
Svenska gry kurage mandom mannamod mod tapperhet
Kiswahili ujasiri
தமிழ் தைரியம்
తెలుగు ధైర్యము
Türkmençe batyrlyk ýüreklilik
ئۇيغۇرچە جاسارەت
اردو ہِمَّت
Oʻzbekcha botirlik jasurlik
Tiếng Việt can đảm dũng khí
IsiZulu isibindi

Examples

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.”
“He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
““Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.””
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
“2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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