What does courage mean?

Definitions for courage
ˈkɜr ɪdʒ, ˈkʌr-courage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. courage, courageousness, bravery, bravenessnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. couragenoun

    The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

  2. couragenoun

    The ability to do things which one finds frightening.

  3. courageverb

    To encourage.

  4. Etymology: From corage (French: courage), from cor. Distantly related to cardiac, which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. COURAGEnoun

    Bravery; active fortitude; spirit of enterprise.

    Etymology: courage, Fr. from cor, Latin.

    The king becoming graces,
    Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude;
    I have no relish of them. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Their discipline
    Now mingled with their courage. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    Hope arms their courage: from their tow’rs they throw
    Their darts with double force, and drive the foe. Dryden.

    Courage, that grows from constitution, very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in an uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason. Joseph Addison, Guardian.

    Nothing but the want of common courage was the cause of their misfortunes. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Courage

    Courage (also called bravery or valor) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery, especially in battle. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, even death, or threat of death; while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, discouragement, or personal loss. The classical virtue of fortitude (andreia, fortitudo) is also translated "courage", but includes the aspects of perseverance and patience. In the Western tradition, notable thoughts on courage have come from philosophers Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard, as well as Christian beliefs and texts. In the Hindu tradition, mythology has given many examples of bravery, valor and courage, with examples of both physical and moral courage exemplified. In the Eastern tradition, the Chinese text Tao Te Ching offers a great deal of thoughts on courage, both physical and moral.

ChatGPT

  1. courage

    Courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. It refers to the ability to act on one's beliefs despite danger or disapproval. This concept is often associated with bravery and fearlessness, but also involves making the right choice even when it's hard or unpopular.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Couragenoun

    the heart; spirit; temper; disposition

  2. Couragenoun

    heart; inclination; desire; will

  3. Couragenoun

    that quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution

Wikidata

  1. Courage

    Courage is the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement. In some traditions, fortitude holds approximately the same meaning as courage. In the Western tradition, notable thoughts on courage have come from philosophers such as Aristotle, Aquinas and Kierkegaard; in the Eastern tradition, some thoughts on courage were offered by the Tao Te Ching. More recently, courage has been explored by the discipline of psychology.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Courage

    kur′āj, n. the quality that enables men to meet dangers without fear: bravery: spirit.—interj. take courage!—adj. Courā′geous, full of courage: brave.—adv. Courā′geously.—n. Courā′geousness.—Dutch courage, a fictitious courage induced by drinking; Pluck up one's courage, to nerve one's self to something daring; The courage of one's convictions, courage to act up to or consistently with one's opinions. [O. Fr. corage (Fr. courage), from L. cor, the heart.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. courage

    1. A matter of the red corpuscle. 2. A matter of getting used to it. (It is oxygen that makes every attack, and without oxygen in his blood to back him, a man attacks nothing--not even a pie.--From Wilbur Nesbit's book _Bunc as I Have Found It_.)

Editors Contribution

  1. courage

    The ability and knowing to trust, listen and follow our heart and soul, to act and behave in a just manner when we know in our heart and soul what we feel intuitively is honest and true.

    The Director of the International Unity Government had the courage to take the unity government reform to the next level as she feels, knows and understands intuitively this is what the people choose and verified it and iss accurate in her assessment and ensures it is in line with optimum health, human rights, right to life, stability, unity government, shared prosperity and freedom for all on planet earth.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 14, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. COURAGE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Courage is ranked #64054 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Courage surname appeared 311 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Courage.

    83.2% or 259 total occurrences were White.
    7% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
    4.5% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.5% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'courage' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4698

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'courage' in Nouns Frequency: #1919

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of courage in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of courage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of courage in a Sentence

  1. Joseph Stalin:

    In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

  2. The Sydney Opera House:

    We want to send a message of hope and strength, and importantly to thank the emergency services and volunteers for their incredible efforts and courage.

  3. Luis Sepúlveda:

    In a time when immigrants' rights and livelihoods are being severely threatened, the Green Light Bill is a clear message that we New Yorkers will always choose to lead with courage and love and to fight for everyone's right to the American Dream.

  4. Brannon Howse:

    We were talking, we're like, who can we get some of this information to that has the courage and the guts to talk about this, take on this cause, bring it to the president? i said there's only one guy in my Rolodex I know that has that kind of access, that kind of popularity and the guts to do it. And that's Mike Lindell.

  5. Ronald Reagan:

    Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbours.

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  • Mel V Biljon Fly
    Mel V Biljon Fly
    I feel that courage is not the absense of showing pain or fear. I feel that courage is:- Doing something in spite of the fear, terror, pain, unknowling. One can show fear or pain but one doesn't act on it by shying away and not 'showing up'. One acts even though one might be fearful or in pain - that is courage - to act in spite of being fearful. 
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