valor
pronunciation
How to pronounce valor in British English:
UK ['vælə(r)]
How to pronounce valor in American English:
US ['vælər]
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- Noun:
- the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)
Word Origin
- valor (n.)
- c. 1300, "value, worth," from Old French valor, valour "valor, moral worth, merit, courage, virtue" (12c.), from Late Latin valorem (nominative valor) "value, worth" (in Medieval Latin "strength, valor"), from stem of Latin valere "be strong, be worth" (see valiant). The meaning "courage" is first recorded 1580s, from Italian valore, from the same Late Latin word. (The Middle English word also had a sense of "worth or worthiness in respect of manly qualities").
Example
- 1. As it 's been said : " discretion is the better part of valor . "
- 2. In the sunshine , ultraviolet rays make my valor .
- 3. They owned their lives to the valor of the fireman .
- 4. Prof valor should know he holds the chair in information systems at iese .
- 5. Now jephthah the gileadite was a mighty man of valor . And he was the son of a harlot , and gilead had begotten jephthah .