courageous person
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcourageousandperson
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courageous
adjective
uk/kəˈreɪ.dʒəs/us/kəˈreɪ.dʒəs/
having or ...
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person
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofcourageousandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thecourageouspersonfeels fear and confidence to just the right amount given the circumstances.
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I think acourageouspersonis one is willing to take a risk.
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He was a most amusing andcourageousperson, and like many of us, could not keep a straight face on parade.
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It takes a verycourageousperson—or, perhaps, a very foolhardy person—to do that.
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The spy is a verycourageouspersonbecause he does his work under the most terrible difficulty and with the greatest possible risk.
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I am delighted that thiscourageouspersonhas come forward to take up that dangerous task.
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Being a verycourageouspersonshe is, to vary a well-known metaphor, the angel who rushed in where her male colleagues, the archangels, feared to tread.
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She was not only beautiful but very smart and determined, and she had a lot of guts; she was acourageousperson.
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The selection committee praised her as acourageouspersonwho has never heeded the threat to her own safety.
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