BRAVERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bravery mean? 

• BRAVERY (noun)
  The noun BRAVERY has 2 senses:

1. a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

2. feeling no fear

  Familiarity information: BRAVERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAVERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

braveness; bravery; courage; courageousness

Hypernyms ("bravery" is a kind of...):

spirit (a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character)

Attribute:

brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bravery"):

heart; mettle; nerve; spunk (the courage to carry on)

gallantry; heroism; valiance; valiancy; valor; valorousness; valour (the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle))

dauntlessness; intrepidity (resolute courageousness)

Dutch courage (courage resulting from intoxication)

stoutheartedness (the trait of having a courageous spirit)

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

fortitude (strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feeling no fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bravery; fearlessness

Hypernyms ("bravery" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bravery"):

security (freedom from anxiety or fear)

 Context examples 

You may be unafraid, Mr. Larsen, but you must grant that the bravery is mine.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Are you a fellow of that sort?” said he, and could not help admiring his own bravery.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I learned, however, that day once for all that both Summerlee and Challenger possessed that highest type of bravery, the bravery of the scientific mind.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker waiting us, with an appearance of cheerfulness which did honour to her bravery and unselfishness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Billee, terrified into bravery, sprang through the savage circle and fled away over the ice.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The older soldiers among the English shook their heads as they looked upon the escutcheons of these famous warriors, for they were all men who had spent their lives upon the saddle, and bravery and strength can avail little against experience and wisdom of war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Moklan is thy son and mine, wherefore he is brave. Mayhap, because of thy very brave father, Moklan is too brave. It is like when too much water is put in the pot it spills over. So too much bravery is put into Moklan, and the bravery spills over.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was commanded up to Monday night by James Barclay, a gallant veteran, who started as a full private, was raised to commissioned rank for his bravery at the time of the Mutiny, and so lived to command the regiment in which he had once carried a musket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He gave her a quick look of admiration. “I like you a hundred per cent. better for that,” he said. Books, and brains, and bravery.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)