courage
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
Noun 3 meanings
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
“It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.”
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
“He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.”
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.
Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
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COURAGE at a glance
COURAGE has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + U 1 + R 1 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,069 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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