brave
noun/breɪv/
/breɪv/
- the brave[plural] people who are brave
- America, the land of the free and the home of the brave
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- [countable] (old-fashioned) a native North American warrior
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’.
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