BRAVO (bravoes)

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Irregular inflected form: bravoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bravo mean? 

• BRAVO (noun)
  The noun BRAVO has 2 senses:

1. a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

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

  Familiarity information: BRAVO used as a noun is rare.

• BRAVO (verb)
  The verb BRAVO has 1 sense:

1. applaud with shouts of 'bravo' or 'brava'

  Familiarity information: BRAVO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAVO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

assassin; assassinator; bravo

Context example:

assassinators of kings and emperors

Hypernyms ("bravo" is a kind of...):

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

Instance hyponyms:

Booth; John Wilkes Booth (United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865))

Lee Harvey Oswald; Oswald (United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bravo" is a kind of...):

cheer (a cry or shout of approval)

Derivation:

bravo (applaud with shouts of 'bravo' or 'brava')

• BRAVO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Applaud with shouts of 'bravo' or 'brava'

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bravo" is one way to...):

acclaim; applaud; clap; spat (clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

bravo (a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance)

 Context examples 

Bravo! An excellent satire on modern language.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Wild Indians, bravos, not mansos; they watch us every mile of the way; kill us if they can."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Bravo! said the ass; upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Bravo!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bravo, Watson!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)