BRAVURA

  

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BRAVURA

Definition: BRAVURA

BRAVURA

Noun

1. A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BRAVURA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Etymology: Bravura \Bra*vu"ra\, noun. [Italian expression, (properly) bravery, spirit, from bravo. See Brave.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: BRAVURA

English words defined with "BRAVURA": Aria di bravura. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BRAVURA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (bravado), Italian (cleverness), Portuguese (bravery, chivalry, courage, derring-do, exploit, gallantry, valiancy, valor, valour), Spanish (bravery, bravura, civility, courtesy, crust, curtsey, curtsy, doughtiness, ferocity, fury, urbanity, viciousness).

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Commercial Usage: BRAVURA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bravura (reference)

  • Bravura or Naivete? Two New Companies Attempt to Break into the PC Market [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • El toro bravo : teoría y práctica de la bravura (reference)

  • The Expert's Book of Crosswords: B As in Bravura (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BRAVURA

"BRAVURA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.04% of the time. "BRAVURA" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.04%5048,117
Noun (proper)1.96%1339,140
                    Total100.00%51N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BRAVURA

Expression using "BRAVURA": aria di bravura. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRAVURA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bravura

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BRAVURA

Language Translations for "BRAVURA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

bravuuri. (various references)

   

German

  

bravourstück. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bravúrária (bravura air), nehéz bravúros dal (bravura air). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avurabray

   

Russian 

  

бравурная музыка. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bravura (bravery, civility, courtesy, crust, curtsey, curtsy, doughtiness, ferocity, fury, urbanity, viciousness), ejecución brillante. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bravur (dash). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

marifet gösterisi, çalması marifet isteyen müzik parçası. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

бравурність. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BRAVURA

Derivations

Words beginning with "BRAVURA": bravuras. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BRAVURA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arahura, Baaquba, Barquera, Bavadra, Bravoure, Eravur, Raviraj. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BRAVURA"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BRAVURA" (pronounced bruvyuh"ru)
4-y uh" r uEuro.
3-uh" r ucoloratura, datura, dura, Mura, sura.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BRAVURA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-r-r-u-v"

-2 letters: aurar, brava.

-3 letters: aura, bura, burr, vara.

-4 letters: aba, arb, ava, baa, bar, bra, brr, bur, rub, urb, var, vau.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ar, ba.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-r-r-u-v"
 

+1 letter: bravuras.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BRAVURA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 41 56 55 52 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .-    ...-    ..-    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01000001 01010110 01010101 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#65 &#86 &#85 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0041 0056 0055 0052 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36523556555235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
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Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
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Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;