'Bravery' definitions:
Definition of 'bravery'
(from WordNet)
noun
A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear [syn: courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness] [ant: cowardice, cowardliness]
noun
Definition of 'Bravery'
From: GCIDE
- Bravery \Brav"er*y\, n. [Cf. F. braverie.]
- 1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. [1913 Webster]
- Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress. [1913 Webster]
- With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- A man that is the bravery of his age. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Courage; heroism; interpidity; gallantry; valor; fearlessness; dauntlessness; hardihood; manfulness. See Courage, and Heroism. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bravery'
From: Easton
- Bravery (Isa. 3:18), an old English word meaning comeliness or beauty.
Synonyms of 'bravery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- boldness,
- braveness,
- chiffon,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- clinquant,
- conspicuous gallantry,
- courage,
- courageousness,
- daring,
- determination,
- doughtiness,
- Dutch courage,
- fearlessness,
- festoons,
- finery,
- firmness,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- fortitude,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- full dress,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gallantness,
- gallantry,
- gallantry under fire,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- greatheartedness,
- heroicalness,
- heroism,
- indomitability,
- intrepidity,
- intrepidness,
- knightliness,
- lionheartedness,
- machismo,
- manfulness,
- manhood,
- manliness,
- martial spirit,
- military spirit,
- paste,
- pinchbeck,
- pluck,
- pot-valor,
- prowess,
- regalia,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- soldierly quality,
- stalwartness,
- staunchness,
- stoutheartedness,
- stoutness,
- Sunday best,
- superfluity,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- valiance,
- valiancy,
- valor,
- valorousness,
- virtue,
- war paint