transcription, транскрипция: [ breɪv ]
( braver, bravest, braves, braving, braved)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Someone who is brave is willing to do things which are dangerous, and does not show fear in difficult or dangerous situations.
He was not brave enough to report the loss of the documents.
...those brave people who dared to challenge the Stalinist regimes.
= courageous
≠ cowardly
ADJ
• brave‧ly
Mr Kim bravely stood up to authority.
ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj
2.
If you brave unpleasant or dangerous conditions, you deliberately expose yourself to them, usually in order to achieve something. ( WRITTEN )
Thousands have braved icy rain to demonstrate their support.
VERB : V n
3.
If someone is putting on a brave face or is putting a brave face on a difficult situation, they are pretending that they are happy or satisfied when they are not.
He felt disappointed but he tried to put on a brave face...
PHRASE : V inflects