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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, wax, swell”) or *bʰuH-.

Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.

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Noun

bold (plural bolds)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”).

Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). For semantic development compare Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).

Adjective

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bold (comparative bolder or more bold, superlative boldest or most bold)

  1. Courageous, daring.
    Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
    • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 239c:
      It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  2. Visually striking; conspicuous.
    the painter's bold use of colour and outline
  3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
    Many bold fonts are available on this computer.
    In HTML, wrapping text in <b> and </b> tags produces bold text.
  4. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
  5. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
    All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
  6. Full-bodied.
  7. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
  8. Steep or abrupt.
    • 1808, William Bernard Cooke, A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, page 144:
      The grounds descend with a bold slope to the water's edge, and rise finely upwards above the mansion, abounding with fine trees, and ornamented by a range of building at a distance, in a corresponding style […]
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presumptuous — see presumptuous
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Etymology 3

From Middle English bolden, balden, from Old English baldian, bealdian, from Proto-Germanic *balþōną, related to *balþaz (see above). Cognate with Old High German irbaldōn (“to become bold, dare”).

Verb

bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

  1. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bold, from 1940s-1970s bold film (exploitation film).

Adjective

bold

  1. naked, nude
  2. pornographic

Danish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse bǫllr.

Pronunciation

Noun

bold c (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

  1. ball

Declension

Declension of bold
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bold bolden bolde boldene
genitive bolds boldens boldes boldenes

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Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

bold n

  1. Alternative form of botl

Declension

Declension of bold (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bold bold
accusative bold bold
genitive boldes bolda
dative bolde boldum

Romanian

Etymology

From a Common Slavic root *bodli.

Noun

bold n (plural bolduri)

  1. pin

Declension

Declension of bold
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bold boldul (niște) bolduri boldurile
genitive/dative (unui) bold boldului (unor) bolduri boldurilor
vocative boldule boldurilor

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English bold

Pronunciation

Adjective

bold (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜇ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) naked
    Synonyms: hubad, nakabold
  2. (colloquial) nude; depicting nudity

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Wikious
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