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{
"term": "brave",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "willing to do things that are difficult, dangerous or painful; not afraid",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "brave men and women"
},
{
"text": "Be brave!"
},
{
"text": "I wasn't brave enough to tell her what I thought of her."
},
{
"text": "Desperation had made me brave."
},
{
"text": "She has been incredibly brave."
},
{
"text": "He was as brave as a lion on the rugby field."
},
{
"text": "Can't some brave soul save her from this fate?"
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "requiring or showing courage",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She took the brave decision to start her own business."
},
{
"text": "She died after a brave fight against cancer."
},
{
"text": "He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "new in an impressive way",
"sensetop": "brave new",
"labels": "(sometimes ironic)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a vision of a brave new Britain"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a situation or society that changes in a way that is meant to improve people’s lives but is often a source of extra problems",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the brave new world of technology"
},
{
"text": "the architects' vision of a brave new world of pristine concrete"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to pretend that you feel confident and happy when you do not",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I wasn’t worried."
},
{
"text": "He put a brave face on his illness."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/breɪv/",
"audio": "br/brave/brave__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/breɪv/",
"audio": "br/brave/brave__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’."
}