bravo

See also: bravó, bravò, and Bravo

Translingual

Noun

bravo

1. alternative letter-case form of Bravo of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/, /bɹɑˈvoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑːvəʊ/, /bɹɑːˈvəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvəʊ, Rhymes: -əʊ

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

bravo (plural bravos or bravoes or bravi)

1. A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
   • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)‎:

     As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.

   • 1911, H. Rider Haggard, Red Eve‎:

     "Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:

     Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.

2. A shout of "bravo!"
   • 1907, Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Boys and girls from Thackeray‎:

     There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.

3. (international standards, plural "bravos") alternative letter-case form of Bravo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Synonyms

• (hired soldier): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Interjection

bravo!

2. Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:well done

   Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!

Usage notes

Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian feminine form brava is used for a woman or girl, and the Italian plural forms brave f pl are used for female referents only, and bravi m pl are used for male only or two or more male and female referents.

Derived terms

• Bravo Zulu

Related terms

• brava
• bravissimo

Translations

interjection

Arabic: بْرَافُو (brāvo), بِرَافُو (birāvo) Egyptian Arabic: براڤو (brāvo, barāvu), عفارم (ʕafārem) (archaic) Armenian: բրավո (hy) (bravo), կեցցե (hy) (kecʻcʻe) Assamese: বাঃ (bah), চাবাচ (sabas) Bengali: শাবাশ (bn) (śabaś) Bulgarian: бра́во (bg) n (brávo) Danish: bravo Esperanto: brave (eo) Finnish: hyvä (fi) French: bravo (fr) Georgian: ყოჩაღ (ka) (q̇očaɣ) Greek: μπράβο (el) (brávo) Ancient: πύππαξ (púppax) Hindi: शाबाश (hi) (śābāś) Italian: bravo (it) m, bene (it), ben fatto! Japanese: 天晴れ (ja) (appare), ブラボー (ja) (burabō) Latin: mactē Latvian: bravo Malay: mantap (ms) Marathi: शाबास (śābās), शाब्बास (śābbās) Persian: براوو (fa) (brâvo), آفرین (fa) (âfarin) Polish: brawo (pl) Portuguese: bravo (pt) Romanian: bravo (ro) Russian: бра́во (ru) (brávo) Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu) Spanish: bravo (es) Swedish: bravo (sv) Vietnamese: hoan hô (vi) Yiddish: בראַוואָ (bravo)

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Central Kurdish: (please verify) ئافەرین (aferîn), (please verify) ئافەریم (aferîm)

Verb

bravo (third-person singular simple present bravos or bravoes, present participle bravoing, simple past and past participle bravoed)

1. To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
   • 1910, May Agnes Fleming, The Baronet's Bride‎:

     "And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"

   • 1899, Richard Le Gallienne, Young Lives‎:

     Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.

Asturian

Adjective

bravo

1. neuter of bravu

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /braːˈvoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bra‧vo
• Rhymes: -oː

Interjection

bravo

1. bravo!

Related terms

• bravoure

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑʋo(ː)/, [ˈbrɑ̝ʋo̞(ː)]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑˈʋo(ː)/, [ˈbrɑ̝ˈʋo̞(ː)]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑːʋo/, [ˈbrɑ̝ːʋo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋo
• Syllabification^(key): bra‧vo
• Hyphenation^(key): bra‧vo

Interjection

bravo

1. bravo

Further reading

• “bravo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 12 December 2023

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bravo. Doublet of brave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.vo/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Interjection

bravo

1. bravo!, hear, hear!, well said!, well done!

Noun

bravo m (plural bravos)

1. (in the plural) applause, cheers
2. swordsman

   Synonym: spadassin

Related terms

• bravache
• bravade
• brave
• bravement
• braver
• bravoure

Further reading

• “bravo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.