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• brave men and women
• be brave!
• i wasn't brave enough to tell her what i thought of her.
• a brave decision

brave

1. willing to do things which are difficult, dangerous or painful; not afraid
• synonym courageous
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• brave men and women
• Be brave!
• I wasn't brave enough to tell her what I thought of her.
2. requiring or showing courage
• a brave decision
• She died after a brave fight against cancer.
• He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful.
3. new in an impressive way
• a vision of a brave new Britain
4. a situation or society that changes in a way that is meant to improve people’s lives but is often a source of extra problems
• the brave new world of technology
5. to pretend that you feel confident and happy when you do not
• I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I wasn’t worried.
• She put a brave face on her illness.

Extra Examples

• The whisky had made me brave.
• I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I wasn’t worried.
• I wasn’t brave enough to tell her what I thought of her.
• She took the brave decision to start her own business.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’.