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bold
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What does bold mean?
adjective
- Courageous, daring.
- Visually striking; conspicuous.
- Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
More meanings (12)
adjective
- Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
- Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
- Full-bodied.
- Pornographic; depicting nudity.
- Steep or abrupt.
- Acronym of blood-oxygen-level dependent.
verb
- (informal) To make (a font or some text) bold.
- (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
- (obsolete) To become bold or brave.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England.
noun
- (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
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IPA pronunciation
/boʊld/
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Barbicane and his bold colleagues, to whom nothing seemed impossible, had succeeding in solving the complex problems of projectile, cannon, and powder.
“You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?”
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It was said he had got possession of his Indian jewel by means which, bold as he was, he didn’t dare acknowledge.
She looked at him again, with that expression that he had mentally characterized as “bold,” a few minutes before--with dark, intelligent eyes.
'At the present moment,' says another authority, writing more than a year ago, 'there are three very bold female gamblers at Baden.