bold

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

(Redirected from Bold)
Jump to: navigation, search
Wikipedia has articles on:

Wikipedia

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English bald

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Adjective

Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia bold (comparative bolder, superlative boldest)

Positive
bold

Comparative
bolder

Superlative
boldest
  1. Courageous, daring.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.
      It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  2. (of a typeface) having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface
    The last word of this sentence is bold.
  3. presumptuous.
    • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
      even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Translations

courageous, daring
having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface
presumptuous
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to bold

Third person singular
bolds

Simple past
bolded

Past participle
bolded

Present participle
bolding

to bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

  1. To make a selected portion of text have a typeface with thicker and heavier strokes.

[edit] Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia da

[edit] Noun

bold c. (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

  1. ball

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of “bold”
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bold bolden bolde boldene
genitive bolds boldens boldes boldenes

[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Probably representing an earlier *bodl, *boþl, from Proto-Germanic *boþlo-, from an instrumental form of Proto-Germanic *bu- (“‘to dwell’”). Compare Old Norse ból.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

bold n.

  1. house, dwelling, building

[edit] Declension

Singular Plural
nominative bold bold
accusative bold bold
genitive boldes bolda
dative bolde boldum
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bold"
Personal tools