cool head
cool head noun: a calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.
Noun
cool head (plural cool heads)
- A calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.
- [H]e had been engaged in divers hostile expeditions against the aborigines, and on all occasions had he shown a cool head and a resolute mind.1829, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 23, in The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- Joan had a cool head—the only cool head there—and she took command and brought order out of that chaos.1896, Mark Twain, chapter 5, in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
cool head meaning in Bengali
cool head in Bengali
- একটি শান্ত, একনিষ্ঠ আচরণ এবং মানসিকতা
Examples of cool head in a sentence
- A telegenic personality who connected easily with journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC—a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats.2006 November 19, Christine Gorman, “What Ails The CDC”, in Time, retrieved 20 Mar 2014:
- It took a cool head to co-ordinate with the signaller at York ROC to have the train switched from fast to slow line, to permit the stop in Huntingdon station.2025 November 12, Philip Haigh, “High praise for rail staff's courage and clear thinking”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 50:
Forms of cool head
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Words formed from cool head
Questions about cool head
- What does cool head mean?
- Cool head means a calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.
- What is cool head in Bengali?
- Cool head in Bengali is একটি শান্ত, একনিষ্ঠ আচরণ এবং মানসিকতা. See Cool head meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use cool head in a sentence?
- A telegenic personality who connected easily with journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC—a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats.
- What part of speech is cool head?
- Cool head is a noun.
- What is the plural of cool head?
- The plural of cool head is cool heads.
Words near cool head in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cool head (page history and authors); cool head (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.
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