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    bravo
    interjection
    (used in praising a performer.)
  • Bravo
    Bravo
    noun
    communications a code word for the letter b
Synonyms

bravo

American  
[brah-voh, brah-voh] / ˈbrɑ voʊ, brɑˈvoʊ /

interjection

  1. (used in praising a performer.)


noun

bravos, plural, plural bravoes plural
  1. a shout of “bravo!”

  2. a daring bandit, assassin, or murderer, especially one hired to steal or murder for another.

  3. a word used in communications to represent the letter B.

verb (used without object)

bravoed, bravoing
  1. to shout “bravo!”

bravo 1 British  

interjection

  1. well done!

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a cry of "bravo"

  2. a hired killer or assassin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Bravo 2 British  
/ ˈbrɑːvəʊ /

noun

  1. communications a code word for the letter b

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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