bravo
interjection
(used in praising a performer.)
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bravo
American
[brah-voh, brah-voh]
/ ˈbrɑ voʊ, brɑˈvoʊ /
interjection
noun
bravos,
plural, plural
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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"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
So bravo to you for taking this on.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
"You have brought happiness to all Ivorians, bravo, bravo," said President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, which hosted the pan-African tournament.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
The bravo curled a lip, whilst the fellow with the quill j chuckled at his insolence.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It was a bet that fusing the company’s cable channels, which included Bravo and MSNBC, and its broadcast network, with Comcast’s distribution pipes would make it a stronger company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
It prompted Yang to make the joke about one of the rules of culture: “War is Bravo for men.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
But the film proceeds at its own steady pace as measured by Ms. Bravo, with a psycho-cinematic complexity that transcends any routine mystery movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo bought the company in 2014 and took it public in 2017, only to buy it back in 2022 for $6.9 billion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
People tell him of a superstition: drink from the Rio Bravo, and he’ll be stuck in Nuevo Laredo forever.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
The antechambers, the courts, and the street, were crowded with servants, pages, and bravoes.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
Your dismissal of the bravoes, by means of the count’s ring, was a masterly stroke.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
"The baffled tyrant returned to Whitehall with his company of bravoes," while the city of London sheltered Hampden and his friends.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John
He had in his train four bravoes; he advanced with a haughty step, and an expression of insolence and disdain on his countenance.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
He was the leader of this troop of bravoes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
The bravos and foot-stamping began the second Plácido Domingo was spotted walking onstage Sunday, leading to a standing ovation that lasted well over a minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
The second came two hours later, when she took her curtain call amid a storm of bravos, whistles and whoops.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2013
Abandoned buildings were seen less often, die naked children vanished, the bravos in the doorways seemed more sumptuously dressed.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He was bravoed in the capitals of Europe and South America, where he made the bolero famous.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
When it was published in London last month, British critics bravoed.
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
"And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"
From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
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
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
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous
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