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brave
Overview of noun brave
The noun brave has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. brave -- (a North American Indian warrior)
2. brave -- (people who are brave; "the home of the free and the brave")
Overview of verb brave
The verb brave has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) weather, endure, brave, brave out -- (face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements")
Overview of adj brave
The adj brave has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (10) brave, courageous -- (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory")
2. (1) audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing -- (invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers")
3. brave, braw, gay -- (brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brave
2 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave
=> warrior
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
brave
=> people
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun brave
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brave
2 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave
=> warrior
Sense 2
brave
=> people
Antonyms of noun brave
1 of 2 senses of brave
Sense 2
brave
Antonym of timid (Sense 1)
=>timid, cautious
Member Holonyms of noun brave
Substance Holonyms of noun brave
Part Holonyms of noun brave
Member Meronyms of noun brave
Substance Meronyms of noun brave
Part Meronyms of noun brave
Meronyms of noun brave
Holonyms of noun brave
Attributes of noun brave
Derived Forms of noun brave
1 of 2 senses of brave
Sense 2
brave
RELATED TO>(verb) brave#1
=> weather, endure, brave, brave out
Domain of noun brave
Domain Terms of noun brave
Familiarity of noun brave
brave used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun brave
2 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave
> warrior
=> brave
=> centurion
=> Crusader
=> guerrilla, guerilla, irregular, insurgent
=> samurai
HAS INSTANCE=> Goliath
Sense 2
brave
> people
=> peoples
=> age group, age bracket, cohort
=> ancients
=> baffled
=> blind
=> blood
=> brave
=> timid, cautious
=> business people, businesspeople
=> damned
=> dead
=> living
=> deaf
=> defeated, discomfited
=> disabled, handicapped
=> doomed, lost
=> enemy
=> episcopacy, episcopate
=> folk, folks, common people
=> free, free people
=> homebound
=> initiate, enlightened
=> uninitiate
=> mentally retarded, retarded
=> network army
=> nationality
=> peanut gallery
=> pocket
=> retreated
=> sick
=> tradespeople
=> wounded, maimed
=> migration
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> nation, land, country
=> poor people, poor
=> rich people, rich
=> populace, public, world
=> population
=> community
=> coevals, contemporaries, generation
=> lobby
=> clientele, patronage, business
=> rank and file
=> smart money
=> unconfessed
=> unemployed people, unemployed
=> womankind
=> chosen people
Meronyms of noun brave
2 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave
=> warrior
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 2
brave
=> people
HAS MEMBER: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Holonyms of noun brave
Grep of noun brave
brave
braveness
bravery
Antonyms of verb brave
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb brave
1 sense of brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
=> defy, withstand, hold, hold up
=> resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm
=> fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend
=> contend, fight, struggle
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb brave
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb brave
1 sense of brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
=> defy, withstand, hold, hold up
'Cause To' of verb brave
Derived Forms of verb brave
1 sense of brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
RELATED TO>(noun) brave#2
=> brave
Domain of verb brave
Domain Terms of verb brave
Familiarity of verb brave
brave used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb brave
1 sense of brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb brave
1 sense of brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
> defy, withstand, hold, hold up
=> weather, endure, brave, brave out
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb brave
Sense 1
weather, endure, brave, brave out
=> defy, withstand, hold, hold up
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Grep of verb brave
brave
brave out
outbrave
Antonyms of adj brave
3 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave (vs. cowardly), courageous
cowardly (vs. brave), fearful
=> caitiff
=> chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied
=> craven, recreant
=> dastard(prenominal), dastardly
=> faint, fainthearted, timid, faint-hearted
=> funky
=> poltroon
=> pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly
Sense 2
audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing
INDIRECT (VIA bold) -> timid
Sense 3
brave, braw, gay
INDIRECT (VIA colorful, colourful) -> colorless, colourless
INDIRECT (VIA colorful, colourful) -> colorless, colourless
Similarity of adj brave
3 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave (vs. cowardly), courageous
=> desperate, heroic
=> gallant
=> game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
=> lionhearted
=> stalwart, stouthearted
=> undaunted
=> valiant, valorous
Also See> adventurous#1, adventuresome#1; bold#1; resolute#1; unafraid#1, fearless#1
Sense 2
audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing
=> bold (vs. timid)
Sense 3
brave, braw, gay
=> colorful (vs. colorless), colourful (vs. colourless)
Pertainyms of adj brave
Attributes of adj brave
1 of 3 senses of brave
Sense 1
brave (vs. cowardly), courageous
=> courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness
Domain of adj brave
1 of 3 senses of brave
Sense 3
brave, braw, gay
REGION>(noun) Scotland#1
Domain Terms of adj brave
Familiarity of adj brave
brave used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj brave
brave
Grep of adv brave
bravely
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