To be able to look at your biggest fear and face it in the eye. There are many definitions and many examples. WWhatt may be a challenge to one individual is unimpressive and easily overcome by another.
A typical example of bravery is facing down an enemy in battle or facing death in the eye in another for or fashion.
Another example is to completely endanger your social standing and completely ignore all social implicaions and do whatever you want
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A cancer survivor, occasionally used as an insult.
Wow, Lucy is so brave, she is cancer free as of today!
'brave' is rumoured to have many origins. Some say it originates of the words 'bastard' and 'rave' whilst others believe in a a more complicated constellation consisting the words 'bastard', 'radical' and 'safe'. Either way the common use and interpretation of the two meanings does not differ too much in everyday life. It is an expression to highlight someone's high social value in community adding this extra bit of hidden meaning for people familiar with this expression. It can be used as an adjective or an adverb. In some cases it might even be used as a noun.
-'Brave, mate?'
-'Sure bro, braver...'
-'Mick banged that super hot chick last week and than `snorted 4 grams of cocaine'
-'Brave!'
-'How safe is that?'
-'That's fucking brave'
-'Collin is a fucking brave individual'
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Adj.: Very cool; like 'tight' or 'awesome'
"Damn, that's brave"; "That shit was brave"
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being brave is being able to overcome a fear. It could be anything for different people. A person could be scared of heights, and they want to overcome it that would be a brave move for them. A wanna be thug could have a fear of standing up to a real thug who takes his money from him so getting a gun and shooting him is the answer. A person might feel brave by winning a street race. It depends on a person's fears.
He was brave the way she talked to the hottest girl in the club
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To come out in support for something only after a majority of others are in support for that same thing.
Barack Obama was brave to come out for gay marriage.
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An old slang term for a Native American, now considered derogatory.
The controversy concerning the name of the baseball team, Atlanta Braves, is nither new to sports nor politics in sports.
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