a person who is not brave or who does not have the courage to do things that other people do not think are especially difficult You coward! What are you afraid of? I'm a real coward when it comes to going to the dentist.
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adjective a cowardly attack on a defenseless manSee coward in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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