take heart

1. 1.

   gain courage

   Synonymsbuck up

   Broadercheer

Questions about take heart

What does take heart mean?

take heart means "gain courage".

What is another word for take heart?

Close synonyms include buck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take heart a common word?

take heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.