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brave

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Is brave a Scrabble word?

Yes, brave is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

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

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "brave"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "brave"?

Scrabble
10 points
B3
R1
A1
V4
E1
Words With Friends
12 points
B4
R1
A1
V4
E1

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