courage

Meaning

Noun

1. The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
2. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
3. 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.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To encourage.
2. 1530, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
3. 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,

Synonyms

bravery

boldness

valor

valour

daring

nerve

pluck

heroism

fortitude

prowess

guts

audacity

spirit

gallantry

mettle

manliness

determination

intrepidity

braveness

grit

strength

brave

spunk

confidence

energy

resolution

heart

❤️

fearlessness

hardihood

courageousness

backbone

gut

manhood

persistence

valour

hardiness

self-confidence

cheerfulness

power

moxie

stability

valor

endurance

vigour

steadfastness

virility

patience

effort

firmness

gumption

liver

lovable

dressing down

manly

decisiveness

mettled

might

mind

mood

morale

ardour

overthrow

pecker

pep

peppiness

pertness

constancy

praiseworthy

confident

pure

rashness

resoluteness

chivalry

resolve

robust

self-assurance

self-command

sprightliness

cardinal virtues

stalwartness

stamina

steadiness

stoutness

bravura

strength of mind

strong

stubborn

subversion

take heart

valiance

bottle

blowing up

vanity

venturousness

vigor

vim

vitality

vivacity

will

will power

zeal

be courageous

moral support

stoutheartedness

health

⚕️

stout-heartedness

valiancy

valorousness

possessed of vitality

swayed by excitement

without self-possession

disanimation

ballsiness

hardiment

heroicness

fearless

fierceness

faithfulness

etc.

gall

gallant

enterprise

gum

encouragement

hard

elation

have

healthy

⚕️

heroic

earnestness

high spirits

honesty

industrious

durability

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌɹ.ɪdʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: corage

Cognate with French: courage

Inherited from Middle English: elne

Inherited from Old English: ellen

In summary

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”).