cowardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: kou'əd, IPA: /ˈkaʊəd/
• (米国発音) enPR: kou'ərd, IPA: /ˈkaʊɚd/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈkawə(ɾ)d/
  • (lax diphthongs, V-W merger) Homophone: covered
• ハイフネーション: co‧ward
• Homophone: cowered

名詞

coward (plural cowards)

1. A person who lacks courage.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1:

     Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]

   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     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.

同意語

• chicken
• scaredy pants
• yellowbelly
• baby
• big baby
• See also Thesaurus:coward

派生語

形容詞

coward (comparative more coward, superlative most coward)

1. Cowardly.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 4,

     He rais’d the house with loud and coward cries.

   • 1709, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon”, in Poems on Several Occasions‎, 2nd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 89:

     Invading Fears repel my Coward Joy;
     And Ills foreseen the pleasant Bliss destroy.

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

動詞

coward (third-person singular simple present cowards, present participle cowarding, simple past and past participle cowarded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To intimidate.
   • 1820, John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus:

     The first he coped with was their captain, whom / His sword sent headless to seek out a tomb. / This cowarded the valour of the rest, […]

参照

• Coward in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

別の表記

• couard, couward, cowart, cowerde, coword, cuward, kowarde

発音

• IPA: /ˈkuːard/, /ˈkɔu̯ard/

名詞

coward

1. coward, knave
2. (rare) idiot, simpleton

関連する語

• cowardie
• cowardise
• cowardly
• cowardnesse

派生した語

• English: coward
• Scots: cooart, coort

参照

• “cǒuard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

形容詞

coward

1. cowardly
2. (rare) stupid

派生した語

• English: coward

参照

• “cǒuard, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

coward

1. alternative form of cowherde