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# composure

«composure» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being calm and in control of your feelings, especially in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (composure; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Being calm and in control of your feelings, especially in a difficult or stressful moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and sport: a player keeps her composure under pressure; someone loses composure and cries. It tells the reader how calm a character is. Phrases: keep your composure, lose your composure, regain composure.

### examples

- She kept her composure even when the crowd booed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x1)
- He lost his composure and started to cry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x2)
- After a deep breath, I regained my composure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x3)
- The goalkeeper showed great composure in the penalty shootout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x4)
- The teacher spoke with composure during the fire alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x5)
- It's hard to keep your composure when you're very nervous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x6)
- The pilot's composure kept the passengers calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x7)
- It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but these people had strong wills, as unbending as their hard fortune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/#x8)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: composed (calm). Similar: calmness, self-control. Not related in meaning to "compose" a song, though it comes from the same root.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «composure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/composure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.