courage

n

1. bravery, valor, valorousness, valiancy, valiance, heroism, prowess, stout-heartedness, lionheartedness, iron-heartedness, great-heartedness, high-heartedness; virility, manliness, manfulness, manhood, gallantry, chivalry, chivalrousness; intrepidity, intrepidness, fearlessness, dauntlessness, awelessness, dreadlessness; boldness, bold-spiritedness, high-spiritedness, daring, dash, elan, panache, derring-do, audacity, audaciousness, rashness, (usually negative) bravado; assurance, self-assurance, self-reliance, confidence, pot-valor, pot-valiance, pot-valiancy.

2. fortitude, endurance, tenacity, determination, will, will power; firmness, resoluteness, resolution, indomi-tableness, indomitability, invincibleness, invincibility, staunchness, stanchness, steadfastness, stalwartness, doughtiness, sturdiness, hardiness, hardihood, bulldog courage; mettle, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, backbone, gumption, blood, heart, nerve, grit, U.S. Inf. sand, Inf. starch, Inf. spunk, Sl. guts, Sl. moxie.