Bravo

Definition: Bravo

Bravo

Noun

1. A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors".

2. A cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance.

Verb

1. Applaud with shouts of "bravo" or "brava".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bravo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Bravo

Approbation

Interjection: hear hear! bully for you! well done! bravo! bravissimo! euge! macte virtute! so far so good, that's right, quite right; optime! one cheer more; may your shadow never be less! esto perpetua! long life to! viva! enviva! Godspeed! valete et plaudite! encore! bis!

Killing

Butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner. (punishment); man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder.

Rashness

Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer.

Crosswords: Bravo

Albanian (thumbs up), Czech (bravo, bully for you), French (attaboy, bravo, bravos), German (bravo, bravos, well done), Italian (bravo, capable, clever, fine, good), Portuguese (brave, bravo, courageous, gallant, gamy, valiant), Romanian (attaboy, bravo, bully, capital, excellent, good business, good show, hear, hot dog, well done), Serbo-Croatian (bravo), Spanish (brave, bravo, courageous, courteous, Dauntless, doughtily, fine, good for you, lion-hearted, rough, spirited, urbane, valiant, vicious, well done, wild), Swedish (bravo, hear, well done), Turkish (attaboy, bravo, bully, cheers, well done).

Oh bravo! Yes, jump into the old jalopy and come down and stay in the country, and we can relive the old times. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Billy Baron Bravo (1971)

Los Pistoleros de Paso Bravo (1969)

O Bravo Guerreiro (1969)

Sangre en Río Bravo (1966)

Sfida a Rio Bravo (1965)

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

References

• Bravo Foods International Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bravo Family Ties (reference)

• Bravo Two Zero (reference)

• Bravo, Amelia Bedelia! (reference)

• Bravo, Kazam! (Brand New Readers (Paper)) (reference)

• Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bravo Magazine And Program Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rio Bravo (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bravo Domingo (reference)

• Barrio Bravo (reference)

• Bravo Giovanni (1962 Original Broadway Cast) [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Bravo! Brubeck! [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bravo Air Race (reference)

• BLACK INK CARTRIDGE FOR BRAVO (reference)

• COLOR INK CARTRIDGE FOR BRAVO (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Factory Reconditioned Krups R871-42 Espresso Bravo Boiler System Espresso/Cappuccino Machine, Black (reference)

• Rubbermaid G26912 Type U Eureka Bravo Vacuum Bags (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Erasmo Montemayer (right), NRCS District Conservationist, and Zaragoza Rodriguez, RC&D coordinator, inspect hydrant operation with a volunteer firefighter from Hebbronville, TX. The Rio Bravo RC&D helped establish dry hydrants to aid in fire protection. [. Credit: Ken Hammond.

D.D. Gaspar Bravo De Sobremonte Ramirez... / L. Spirinz sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

In formation with destroyers and aircraft of Anti-submarine Task Group Bravo, in the Mediterranean Sea, 19 August 1961. All escorts are Gearing class DDEs. Planes overhead include ten S2F and two AD-5Ws. Two HSS-1 helicopters are flying just above the ships. Credit: NAVY.

Firing her 5"/38 guns at a target drone aircraft, during exercises, 21 August 1964. The ship following next astern is USS Porterfield (DD-682). The relative positions of Wedderburn's signal flags, with the port side red "Bravo" flag hoisted higher, indicate that the ship is firing to port. Evenly hoisted flags on Porterfield indicate that her guns are not yet trained out. Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell. Credit: NAVY.

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

Bravo Lancaster!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Bravo, Emmanuel L., "Adrenocortical Insufficiency," in Conn's Current Therapy, edited by Robert E. Rakel. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

However, it did not file charges against retired army Brigadier General Alberto Bravo Silva, Colonel Roque Sanchez, and two other army officers. (references)

Colombia

The Inspector General's office continued its investigation of (but had not charged) Bravo, Roque, army Colonel Victor Hugo Matamoros, army major Mauricio Llorente Chavez, and army lieutenant Luis Fernando Campuzano. (references)

Venezuela

There were no new developments, and none appear likely, in the August 1999 case of torture of Juan de la Cruz Bravo by the PTJ in Guasdualito, Apure state, or in the June 1999 beating of Andres Flores by the Metropolitan Police. (references)

Travel

Mexico

These include Cuernavaca, Taxco, Querétaro, Tequesquitengo, Tequisquiapan, Toluca, Valle de Bravo, San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, and Tepozotlan, to mention a few. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

On March 2, at a foreign-owned company in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, the JFCA allowed an independent union election in response to employee claims that the long-standing union, CROC, engaged in harassment and coercion at the workplace. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "bravo": rio bravo. Additional references.

Ending with "bravo": Brandon-bravo.

Albanian

vrasës i paguar (hatchet man, hitman), të lumtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرحي (hurrah, well done), ‏مرحى كهتاف إستحسان, ‏قاتل مستأجر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

наемен убиец (goon, gorilla, hitman, torpedo), браво (at a boy, hear! hear, well done, whee). (various references)

Czech

bravo (bully for you). (various references)

Farsi 

مریزاد, هورا (Cheer, Whoopee), افرین (Hurrah), براوو. (various references)

French

Bravo (bravos). (various references)

German

bravoruf, bravo (bravos, well done). (various references)

Greek 

μπράβοσ (well done), μπράβο (good for you, thumbs up, well done), εύγε (well done). (various references)

Hebrew 

ישר כח, �"י�"�" (applause, cheers, hurray). (various references)

Hungarian

bravó, vakmerõ gonosztevõ. (various references)

Indonesian

baiklah (roger), bagus (lovely, nicely). (various references)

Italian

bravo (capable, clever, fine, good). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brandy, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ブラボー . (various references)

Pig Latin

avobray

Portuguese

bravo (brave, courageous, gallant, gamy, valiant), bandido (bandit, desperado, gangster, hoodlum, outlaw, robber, ruffian, thug), expressão de aplauso, espadachim (myrmidon, pensioner, swashbuckler). (various references)

Romanian

bravo (attaboy, bully, capital, excellent, good business, good show, hear, hot dog, well done), bandit (bandit, brigand, gangster, highwayman, murderer, ruffian, villain), ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), spadasin (fencer, swordsman), asasin plãtit, aferim (I wish you joy of it, that's rather too much, that's well, well done). (various references)

Russian 

браво. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bravo. (various references)

Spanish

bravo (brave, courageous, courteous, Dauntless, doughtily, fine, good for you, lion-hearted, rough, spirited, urbane, valiant, vicious, well done, wild). (various references)

Swedish

bravorop (cheer), bravo (hear, well done), lejd våldsman. (various references)

Turkish

bravo (attaboy, bully, cheers, well done), suikâstçi (assassin, conspirator), kiralık katil (assassin, goon, hatchet man, hired killer, hit man), cani (butcher, cutthroat, felon, homicide, malefactor, murderer, villain), aferin (attaboy, bully, good for you, righto, rightoh, well done). (various references)

Ukrainian

браво (good for you, well done). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời hoan hô. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bravo": bravoed, bravoes, bravoing, bravos. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bravo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bardo, barvo, bava, Bavo, Bavon, bavou, Beavon, Birago, birrova, bragoli, brano, Brav, brava, bravi, Bravon, bravw, brev, breve, brevi, Bruvva, Burao, Burovoi, Krivoy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arvo, boar, bora.

-2 letters: abo, arb, avo, bar, boa, bra, bro, oar, ora, orb, ova, rob, var.

-3 letters: ab, ar, ba, bo, or.

+1 letter: bravos.

+2 letters: bolivar, bravado, bravoed, bravoes, vibrato.

+3 letters: abortive, absolver, behavior, bevatron, biovular, bolivars, boshvark, bravados, bravoing, obviator, outbrave, overable, overbake, overbear, overbeat, provable, provably, vibrator, vibratos.

+4 letters: absolvers, arbovirus, behaviors, behaviour, bevatrons, bolivares, boshvarks, boulevard, bravadoes, coverable, favorable, favorably, nonverbal, observant, obviators, outbraved, outbraves, overbaked, overbakes, overbears, overbeats, overboard, overbroad, overlabor, probative, removable, removably, revocable, revokable, riverboat, vibration, vibrators, vibratory, vocabular.