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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Type with thick heavy lines.
  • adjective Typeset or printed in thick heavy type.
  • transitive verb To mark (copy) for printing in this type.
  • transitive verb To set or print in this type.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has a bold face; an impudent person.
  • noun In printing, same as full-face.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb to print in boldface.
  • noun a typeface with thick heavy lines; -- also called bold-faced.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun typography A font that is dark, having a high ration of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.
  • verb To print, write or draw in a boldfaced font.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb print in boldface
  • noun a typeface with thick heavy lines
  • noun a typeface with thick heavy lines

Etymologies

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bold + face

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