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bold

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English

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Etymology 1

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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.
    Antonyms: risk-averse; conservative; reluctant
    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. (wine, of alcoholic beverages) Full-bodied.
  7. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
    The government warned bus operators against continuing to show bold content on buses.
  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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Etymology 2

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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”).

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

  1. (transitive, informal) To make (a font or some text) bold.
    Synonyms: boldface, embolden
    Coordinate terms: italicize, strike through, underline
    Please bold all these subheads.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.[1]
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.[1]
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Etymology 3

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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

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bold (plural bolds)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Cebuano

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

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bold

  1. naked, nude
  2. pornographic

Danish

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From Old Norse bǫllr.

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bold c (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

  1. ball

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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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Norwegian Bokmål

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From Middle Low German bolt. Related to Danish bold and Old Norse ballr.

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bold (masculine and feminine bold, neuter boldt, definite singular and plural bolde, comparative boldere, indefinite superlative boldest, definite superlative boldeste)

  1. bold, brave, courageous

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bold n

  1. Alternative form of botl

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative bold bold
accusative bold bold
genitive boldes bolda
dative bolde boldum

Romanian

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic бодль (bodlĭ), from Proto-Slavic *bodъľь (“needle, pointy tip”). Compare Bulgarian бодил (bodil).

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bold n (plural bolduri)

  1. pin

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Declension of bold
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bold boldul bolduri boldurile
genitive-dative bold boldului bolduri boldurilor
vocative boldule boldurilor

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Tagalog

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Borrowed from English bold.

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bold (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜇ᜔) (colloquial)

  1. naked; nude; depicting nudity
    Synonyms: hubad, nakabold

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bold (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ᜇ᜔) (colloquial)

  1. pornography; porn
    Sir, may nanonood ng bold dito.
    Sir, there's someone watching porn here.

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