bold

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /boʊld/

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• (RP) IPA: /bəʊld/, [bɒʊɫd]
• Rhymes: -əʊld
• Homophone: bald (in some US dialects), bowled

Etymology 1

From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheu-, *bhū- (“to grow, wax, swell, live, dwell”). Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.

Alternative forms

• bolde, boolde

Noun

bold (plural bolds)

1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

Related terms

• bottle
• build

Etymology 2

From Middle English bold, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel-, *bhlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”). Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“brave,daring”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).

Adjective

Wikipedia

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 font) 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.

Synonyms

• (courageous): audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward
• See also Wikisaurus:brave

Related terms

• embolden

Translations

courageous, daring

• Bulgarian: смел (bg) (smel), храбър (bg) (hrábǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膽大 (cmn), 胆大 (cmn) (dǎndà), 勇敢 (cmn) (yǒnggǎn)

• Czech: odvážný (cs) m, smělý (cs) m, troufalý (cs) m
• Danish: modig (da)
• Dutch: moedig (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭdaca (eo)
• Estonian: julge (et), vahva (et)
• Finnish: arastelematon (fi), arkailematon (fi), karski (fi), rohkea (fi), röyhkeä (fi), selväpiirteinen (fi), suorasukainen (fi), urhoollinen (fi), uskalias (fi), voimakas (fi)
• French: hardi (fr), effronté (fr)
• German: mutig (de), wagemutig (de)
• Greek: τολμηρός (el) (tolmirós), θαρραλέος (el) (tharraléos)
• Hebrew: אמיץ (he) (amitz) m, אמיצה (he) (amitza) f
• Hungarian: bátor (hu)

• Italian: sfrontato (it), ardito (it), audace (it), coraggioso (it)
• Japanese: 勇敢な (ja) (ゆうかんな, yūkan na), 大胆な (ja) (だいたんな, daitan na)
• Norwegian: modig (no)
• Polish: odważny (pl), śmiały (pl)
• Portuguese: corajoso (pt), bravo (pt), audacioso (pt)
• Russian: смелый (ru) (smélyj), храбрый (ru) (xrábryj), отважный (ru) (otvážnyj)
• Scots: bauld
• Scottish Gaelic: dàna (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одважан (sh), храбар (sh)

  Roman: odvažan (sh), hrabar (sh)

• Slovak: smelý (sk), odvážny (sk), opovážlivý (sk), trúfalý (sk)
• Spanish: audaz (es), intrépido (es), atrevido (es)
• Swedish: modig (sv), djärv (sv)

having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface

• Bulgarian: черен (bg) (čéren), получерен (bg) (polučéren)
• Catalan: negreta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗體的 (cmn), 粗体的 (cmn) (cūtǐ de)

• Czech: polotučný (cs) m, tučný (cs) m, zvýrazněný (cs) m
• Danish: fed (da)
• Dutch: vet (nl), vetgedrukt (nl)
• Estonian: paks (et)
• Finnish: lihavoitu (fi)
• French: gras (fr)
• German: fett (de)
• Hebrew: דגוש (he) (dagush) m, בולט (he) (bolet') m

• Hungarian: kövér (hu)
• Italian: grassetto (it)
• Japanese: 太字の (ja) (ふとじの, futoji no), ボールド体の (ja) (bōrudo-tai no)
• Polish: tłusty (pl), pogrubiony (pl)
• Portuguese: negrito (pt)
• Russian: жирный (ru) (žírnyj), полужирный (ru) (polužírnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: trom (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: podebljan (sh)
• Spanish: negrita (es)
• Swedish: fet (sv), fetstilt (sv)

presumptuous

• Bulgarian: дързък (bg) (dǎrzǎk), самоуверен (bg) (samouveren)
• Czech: troufalý (cs) m, drzý (cs) m
• Estonian: jultunud (et), häbematu (et)
• Italian: sfrontato (it), sfacciato (it)
• Japanese: 図々しい (ja) (zūzūshii), 厚かましい (ja) (atsukamashii)

• Portuguese: presunçoso (pt)
• Russian: дерзкий (ru) (dérzkij), самоуверенный (ru) (samouvérennyj), наглый (ru) (náglyj)
• Scots: bauld
• Scottish Gaelic: dàna (gd)

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: kuraj-oza, grasa
• Indonesian: berani (id)
• Latin: audax
• Lithuanian: pusjuodis

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
2. (obsolete) To be or become bold.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Danish

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Alternative forms

• (archaic) boldt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌld

Noun

bold c (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

1. ball

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

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Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bold/

Noun

bold n

1. house, dwelling, building

Declension

    Declension of bold (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	bold	bold
accusative	bold	bold
genitive	boldes	bolda
dative	bolde	boldum

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Romanian

Etymology

From a Common Slavic bodli.

Noun

bold n (plural bolduri)

1. pin

Derived terms

• îmboldi

See also

• ac