bolding

bolding is the present participle and gerund of bold.

Meaning of bold

bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

(informal, transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
- Please bold all these subheads.
Synonyms:

boldface, embolden
(obsolete, transitive) To make bold or daring.
- […] for this buſines,
  It touches vs, as France inuades our land
  Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,
  Moſt iuſt and heauy cauſes make oppoſe.c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
(intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.

bolding (countable and uncountable, plural boldings)

The process of putting text in boldface.
- […] text was produced only to be consumed visually — with tables, indents, boldings, typeface changes, and the like, as well as various styles of visual jargon — […]2004, Randy Allen Harris, Voice Interaction Design, page 409

Bolding

plural	boldings

What does bolding mean?: Bolding means the process of putting text in boldface.
What is bolding the present participle and gerund of?: Bolding is the present participle and gerund of bold.
What part of speech is bolding?: Bolding can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bolding?: The plural of bolding is boldings.

Adapted from Wiktionary: bolding (page history and authors); Bolding (page history and authors); bold (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “bolding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bolding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.