Usually means: Gain courage, feel more hopeful.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word take heart:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. take heart: Merriam-Webster
  2. take heart: Collins English Dictionary
  3. take heart: Vocabulary.com
  4. take heart: Wiktionary
  5. take heart: Dictionary.com
  6. Take Heart (Juice Newton album), Take Heart (The Sam Willows album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. take heart: Rhymezone
  8. take heart: FreeDictionary.org
  9. take heart: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. take heart: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take heart: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take heart: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take heart: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take heart)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be courageous; to regain one's courage.

Similar:
buck up, take courage, hearten, heart, respire, rehearten, enhearten, inheart, harten, nerve, more...

Opposite:
lose heart, despair, give up, become discouraged

Phrases:
take to heart, take something to heart, to take heart, to take heart of grace, to take to heart, more...

Adjectives:
dree, try, go, contract, hold, apply, hung up, deal

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Similar:
buck up, take courage, hearten, heart, respire, rehearten, enhearten, inheart, harten, nerve, more...

Opposite:
lose heart, despair, give up, become discouraged

Phrases:
take to heart, take something to heart, to take heart, to take heart of grace, to take to heart, Take These Chains from My Heart, take it to heart, more...

Adjectives:
dree, try, go, contract, hold, apply, hung up, deal



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