brave
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Is brave a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of brave?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.Examples: "Is it not paſſing braue to be a King, And ride in triumph through Perſepolis?"; "Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth."; "It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall."obsolete
2. (UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.Synonyms: courageousUKeuphemistic
noun (English)
1. (dated) A Native American warrior.dated
2. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.Examples: "Hot Braves, like thee, may fight; but know not well / To manage this, the laſt great Stake of Hell."; "In no other land, in modern times, have towns so absolutely died and disappeared, as in the old mining regions of California. […] For, observe, it was an assemblage of two hundred thousand young men—not simpering, dainty, kid-gloved weaklings, but stalwart, muscular, dauntless young braves, brimful of push and energy, and royally endowed with every attribute that goes to make up a peerless and magnificent manhood—the very pick and choice of the world's glorious ones."obsolete
3. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.Examples: "Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.Examples: "For Cassius is aweary of the world; Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother; Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote, To cast into my teeth."; "The ills of Love, not those of Fate, I fear, These I can brave, but those I cannot bear […]"; "[…] but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it."transitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.Examples: "Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave not me. I will neither be faced nor braved."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary