Meaning

4 senses
  1. (UK, uncountable, usually)Individually sustained verve or passion.

    Valor wins the battle, not death!

  2. (UK, uncountable, usually)Value; worth.

  3. (UK, uncountable, usually)Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness; a feeling of upstanding bravery against adversity.

    Tapferkeit, Heldenmut, Mannhaftigkeit

    до́блестьdóblestʹ, отва́гаotvága, му́жествоmúžestvo

    до́блестьdóblestʹ, відва́гаvidváha, му́жністьmúžnistʹ

  4. (UK, dated, uncountable, usually)A brave man; a man of valour.

    геро́йgerój

More definitions
  • the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Discretion is the better part of valour.

    ruБережёного Бог бережёт.

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  2. O, lady, the glow-worm figurates my valour.

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  3. No salutations without miracles, and no ballads without valour.

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  4. It is war's prize to take all vantages, and ten to one is no impeach of valour.

    deIm Krieg ist's Sitte, jeden Vorteil nutzen; zehn gegen eins setzt nicht den Mut herab.

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  5. "Doth the name / of sire or uncle make his young heart glow / for deeds of valour and ancestral fame?"

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
strength of mind in regard to danger:
Русский
By meaning 2
strength of mind in regard to danger:
a brave man; a man of valour:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
strength of mind in regard to danger:

Origin

From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Doublet of valure.

From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Doublet of valure.

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Forms

plural: valours
Singularvalour

uncountable

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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