英和和英

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.

   Synonyms: chicken, pullet, scaredy pants, yellowbelly; see also Thesaurus:coward

   Hypernym: person

   Near-synonyms: big baby, baby

   • 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.

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