Usually means: Courageous, daring, not easily intimidated.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word bold:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bold, bold: Wordnik
  7. bold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bold, bold: Wiktionary
  9. bold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bold, bold: Dictionary.com
  13. bold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bold (band), Bold (book), Bold (decoy), Bold (detergent), Bold (disambiguation), Bold (horse), Bold (singer), Bold: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bold: Rhymezone
  19. bold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bold: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bold: Free Dictionary
  23. bold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bold: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bold: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bold (adjective), bold: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bold: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOLD: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bold: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bold: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bold: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. bold: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. bold: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bold: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See bolder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Courageous, daring.
adjective:  Visually striking; conspicuous.
adjective:  (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
adjective:  Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
adjective:  (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
adjective:  Full-bodied.
adjective:  (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
adjective:  Steep or abrupt.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To make (a font or some text) bold.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
noun:  (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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