Usually means: Fearful of facing danger, risks.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word coward:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coward, coward: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coward: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Coward, coward: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coward, coward: Wordnik
  7. coward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Coward, coward: Wiktionary
  9. coward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coward: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Coward, coward: Dictionary.com
  13. coward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coward (Haste the Day album), Coward (Made Out of Babies album), Coward (Nels Cline album), Coward (disambiguation), Coward (surname), Coward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coward: Rhymezone
  19. coward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. coward: Free Dictionary
  22. coward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Coward: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coward: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coward: Idioms

(Note: See cowards as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who lacks courage.
adjective:  Cowardly.
adjective:  (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To intimidate.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.

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