TAKE HEART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take heart mean? 

• TAKE HEART (verb)
  The verb TAKE HEART has 1 sense:

1. gain courage

  Familiarity information: TAKE HEART used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE HEART (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gain courage

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

buck up; take heart

Hypernyms (to "take heart" is one way to...):

cheer; embolden; hearten; recreate (give encouragement to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

To come into the same room with him, or to meet him at the door, was to take heart of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Take heart afresh, dear husband of Madam Mina.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If ever she should come a wandering back, I wouldn't have the old place seem to cast her off, you understand, but seem to tempt her to draw nigher to 't, and to peep in, maybe, like a ghost, out of the wind and rain, through the old winder, at the old seat by the fire. Then, maybe, Mas'r Davy, seein' none but Missis Gummidge there, she might take heart to creep in, trembling; and might come to be laid down in her old bed, and rest her weary head where it was once so gay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)