The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolden \Bold"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boldened. ] To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
Ready speakers, being boldened with their present
abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence
and study.
--Ascham.
Wiktionary
vb. To make bold; to embolden.
Wikipedia
Bolden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brandon Bolden, American football player
- Bruce Bolden (born 1966), American former basketball player in Australia
- Buddy Bolden (1877–1931), American jazz musician
- Charles Bolden (born 1946), American pilot, astronaut, and NASA Administrator
- Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), American supercentenarian
- Jonah Bolden (born 1996), Australian basketball player
- Omar Bolden, American football player
Usage examples of "bolden".
Dorothy Bolden, a laundry worker in Atlanta and mother of six, told why in 1968 she began organizing women doing housework, into the National Domestic Workers Union.
There was deadly efficiency in the way they piled out at 1280 Bolden Avenue, and covered the vicinity, although it proved to be much effort for nothing.
This according to Presidential Publicity Chairman Bobby Bolden, who issued the statement late yesterday from the summer White House in Barbados.
I really did think that since poor Bolden liked the place that we were settled with him for life, and now his life has been sacrificed in this heroic, tragic fashion.
Abel and Parson Bolden died, and how the wreck not only rebuilt your house, but brought us our new vicar.
Duke Senior often uses "thou" when addressing his subordinates but always receives "you" in return: Duke: Art thou thus boldened man by thy distress?
Jones here, and Doc Savage and I were visiting my father at 1280 Bolden Avenue, in Englewood,” she said.