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say it: bohld
bold is an adjective and noun meaning "fearless and daring". It is pronounced /ˈboʊld/ — bohld. It carries 4 recorded senses.
fearless and daring
“bold settlers on some foreign shore”
“a bold speech”
“a bold adventure”
clear and distinct
“bold handwriting”
“a figure carved in bold relief”
“a bold design”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.