What does bravo mean?
Bravo means A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈbɹɑvoʊ/ · noun
A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado..
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.
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.
"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.
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.
There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.
Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
"And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
Use bravo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bravo means A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado..
Common synonyms include mercenary, bravissimo, bravo, bully.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.