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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"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
"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
“You mean the idiots that I handpicked for cowardice and ineptitude? Oh, yes, bravo, Your Highness. That was a masterly piece of combat,” said Ripred, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Bravo was rescued after 48 hours behind enemy lines.
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
Nearly three years ago, the phenomenon known as “Scandoval” rattled the Bravo TV universe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In February, Thoma Bravo purchased human-capital management company Dayforce for $12.3 billion, marking the private-equity firm’s largest take-private deal to date.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Rio Bravo, as it is called here, is swollen with rain, a torrent of water coursing toward the Gulf of Mexico.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Margaretha had retired to her own chamber and the bravoes were concealed with me in the garden.
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
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
"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 John Lord
It was customary for Roman gentlemen to hire bravoes for the defence of their palaces when any extraordinary disturbance was expected, as, for example, upon the vacation of the papal chair.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson
They reached the castle; the bravoes who were on the esplanade and at the door, retired on both sides to leave the passage free.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
The applause was delivered through texts and tweets, but the bravos could be heard by every enraptured witness of this Sondheim spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
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
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
Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago.
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
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.
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
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
There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
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