Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊəd/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊɚd/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊ.əɹd/
ÖversättningKontext
Substantiv
1.mes {en}talspråk, pejorativa ord
2.ynkrygg
3.fegis {en}
4.kruka {en}talspråk

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A person who lacks courage.

Adjektiv

  1. Cowardly.
  2. (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.

Exempel

  • He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
  • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
  • Invading fears repel my coward joy.

Böjningsformer

Pluralcowards
Komparativmore coward
Superlativmost coward