Definitions for Coward

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Coward cow·ard

Spelling: [kou-erd]

IPA: /ˈkaʊ ərd/

Coward is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in Coward (acdorw).

Definitions for Coward

noun

1. a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.
2. Noel, 1899–1973, English playwright, author, actor, and composer.

adjective

1. lacking courage; very fearful or timid.
2. proceeding from or expressive of fear or timidity:

Origin of Coward

1175-1225; Middle English Old French couard-, couart cowardly, equivalent to coue tail (Latin cauda) + -art -ard

Examples for Coward

The coward would not have the courage to contradict her, but he would know if he were lying!

Or he could have been a coward, lashing out at me for some online slight.

Hill advised him not to, saying that if he did so, the cadets would regard him as a coward.

At any rate, I won't be coward enough to try to hide it from her.

And yet it was a coward's blow, and one to stir the blood and loose the tongue of the most peaceful.

And cancer, deceiver, pretender, coward; it cannot even subsist without the vibrant people it depends on.

Rather, he was “a coward” who would pick fights only “when he knew he was well covered by the busboys.”

If the first thing happened, you'd have been a coward the rest of your life.

He was ultimately a coward, and he took no pleasure in his victims fighting back.

"Because I was a coward," answered Corney, speaking the truth with courage.