bravo
interjection
(used in praising a performer.)
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bravo
American
[brah-voh, brah-voh]
/ ˈbrɑ voʊ, brɑˈvoʊ /
interjection
noun
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bravos,
plural, plural
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bravoes
plural
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a shout of “bravo!”
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a daring bandit, assassin, or murderer, especially one hired to steal or murder for another.
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a word used in communications to represent the letter B.
verb (used without object)
bravoed,
bravoing
bravo
1
British
interjection
noun
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a cry of "bravo"
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a hired killer or assassin
Bravo
2
British
/ ˈbrɑːvəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bravo
First recorded in 1755–65; from Italian; see brave
Example Sentences
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“Bravo and bravo, again,” Monet wrote on Dec. 3, 1897.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
So bravo to you for taking this on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"There was a lot of negativity about the Seine before the Olympics. At least they have tried; they have spent £1.2bn on this clean-up project so bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
“The Second Sons have no place for mummers,” the bravo j in pink said scornfully.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
New episodes of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” air on Bravo on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Free-falling is a good way to put it," said the US airman, who was identified by the name Bravo during the CBS segment.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It was an unregulated facility; it had faced administrative proceedings and fines since 2019, and was a repeat offender," the official, Jose Bravo, said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Summer House Canada,” an international edition of the hit Bravo reality show, is currently filming its debut season in Muskoka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
This will suffice to prove that, at the time of which we treat, the bravoes still existed.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
As he approached the castle he made a sign to all the bravoes he met to follow him: filled with unusual apprehension, but with their accustomed submission, they obeyed; their number increased every moment.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The presence of the three bravoes at the inn was discussed, and the landlord was interrogated; but his memory was, on this point, as defective as ever.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
One would suppose that at the sound of such denunciations from so powerful a source, all the bravoes must have disappeared for ever.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
After intermission he was welcomed with robust bravos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
“She was nervous at first . . . but she stopped the show several times, and the bravos rang out like pistol shots when she finished.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2015
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
I can only assume the the few bravos were ironic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
"Best we get Princess Daenerys wedded quickly before they hand half the wealth of Pentos away to sellswords and bravos," Ser Jorah Mormont jested.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
In the studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940.
From Time Magazine Archive
Years passed and at the Metropolitan Tenor Martinelli continued to take second place to some more bravoed figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they keep hysteria at a distance for a few hours, they are bravoed from one end of the Empire to the other.
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
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