courage
/ˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.32 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
Uncountable
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
- "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
- "It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business."
- "He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt."
- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
- "“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/