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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed 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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹɪdʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkʌɹɪdʒ/, /ˈkɝɪdʒ/
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Noun[edit]
courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)
- The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- 1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life:
- A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
- 1893, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and those Extraordinary Twins[1], page 115:
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:courage
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
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Translations[edit]
quality of a confident character
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ability to do frightening things
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Verb[edit]
courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)
- (obsolete) To encourage. [15th-17thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
- And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo
- 1530, William Tyndale, "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue":
- Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cœur + -age or Middle French corage, from Old French corage, from Vulgar Latin *coraticum, from Latin cor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
courage m (plural courages)
Derived terms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
courage !
Usage notes[edit]
"bon courage !" has a slightly different meaning: "good luck!".
Further reading[edit]
- “courage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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