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Wiktionary

  1. boldenverb

    To make bold; to embolden.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Boldenverb

    To make bold; to give confidence.

    Etymology: from bold.

    Quick inventers, and fair ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities, to say more, and perchance better too, at the sudden, for that present, than any other can do, use less help of diligence and study. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.

    I am much too vent’rous,
    In tempting of your patience; but am bolden’d
    Under your promis’d pardon. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

Wikipedia

  1. Bolden

    Bolden is a 2019 American drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden (1877–1931). One of the seminal figures in jazz history, Bolden left no surviving recordings, having been committed in 1907 at age 30 to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, where he spent the rest of his life after a diagnosis of acute alcoholic psychosis.The musical drama is directed by Daniel Pritzker, and features original music written, arranged and performed by Wynton Marsalis. The film stars Gary Carr as Bolden, and co-stars Erik LaRay Harvey, Reno Wilson, Yaya DaCosta, Ian McShane and Michael Rooker. The score by Marsalis includes vocalists Catherine Russell, Brianna Thomas, Don Vappie, and instrumentalists including Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Marcus Printup, and others. The film contains performances by Reno Wilson playing Louis Armstrong (acting and singing).Bolden was released in theaters on May 3, 2019, by Abramorama.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Boldenverb

    to make bold; to encourage; to embolden

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BOLDEN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bolden is ranked #1649 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bolden surname appeared 21,819 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Bolden.

    72.2% or 15,769 total occurrences were Black.
    21.1% or 4,613 total occurrences were White.
    3.6% or 801 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 517 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.2% or 63 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.2% or 57 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bolden in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bolden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bolden in a Sentence

  1. Arianna Fitts:

    We'd be out in public [ and ] Carmen Bolden'd just wave at strangers with a smile and people would respond to that, very intelligent, very curious about things, and Carmen Bolden also had a little bit of sass sometimes too.

  2. Greg McElroy:

    Now Slade Bolden can kind of be that a little bit in the slot, the young guys are great, but they’re still going to miss that presence.

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