Usually means: Courageous in facing fear, adversity.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word brave:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. brave, the brave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. brave, the brave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brave, brave: Wordnik
  7. brave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brave: Wiktionary
  9. brave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brave, brave: Dictionary.com
  13. brave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Brave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brave: Rhymezone
  19. brave, brave (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brave: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Brave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. brave: Free Dictionary
  24. brave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. brave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. brave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brave: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BRAVE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. brave: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. brave: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
adjective:  Making a fine show or display.
adjective:  (UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.
noun:  (dated) A Native American warrior.
noun:  (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
noun:  (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
verb:  (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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