courage
Definitions
- The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- courage, guts, initiative
- 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.
- vulva; vagina
- 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
- 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.
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Equivalents
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Italianocoraggio
Кыргызчакайрат
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Монголэр зориг
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Slovenčinaodvaha
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اردوہِمَّت
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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.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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