{
    "term": "brave",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "willing to do things that are difficult, dangerous or painful; not afraid",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "brave men and women"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Be brave!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wasn't brave enough to tell her what I thought of her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Desperation had made me brave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has been incredibly brave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was as brave as a lion on the rugby field."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can't some brave soul save her from this fate?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "requiring or showing courage",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She took the brave decision to start her own business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She died after a brave fight against cancer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "new in an impressive way",
            "sensetop": "brave new",
            "labels": "(sometimes ironic)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a vision of a brave new Britain"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a situation or society that changes in a way that is meant to improve people’s lives but is often a source of extra problems",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the brave new world of technology"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the architects' vision of a brave new world of pristine concrete"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to pretend that you feel confident and happy when you do not",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I wasn’t worried."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He put a brave face on his illness."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/breɪv/",
                "audio": "br/brave/brave__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/breɪv/",
                "audio": "br/brave/brave__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from French, from Italian bravo ‘bold’ or Spanish bravo ‘courageous, untamed, savage’, based on Latin barbarus from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’."
}