Bravo vs Awesome - What's the difference?
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A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition=
, passage=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.}}
* , title=Red Eve, chapter=, edition=
, passage="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 2010, page 104:
A shout of "!"
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Kate Dickinson Sweetser, title=Boys and girls from Thackeray, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.}}
The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=May Agnes Fleming, title=The Baronet's Bride, chapter=, edition=
, passage="And my Sunbeam was bravoed , and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?" }}
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Young Lives, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. }}
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Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
(colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.
The quality, state, or essence of being or cool; awesomeness.
* 2011 , Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart , Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ISBN 9781609284619,
* 2011 , Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything , St. Martin's Press (2011), ISBN 9780312643744,
* 2013 , Carrie Jones, Captivate , Bloomsbury (2010), ISBN 9781599903422,
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As an interjection bravo
is bravo.As an adjective awesome is
causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.As a noun awesome is
the quality, state, or essence of being or cool; awesomeness.bravo
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- 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.
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Synonyms
* (hired soldier) seeInterjection
- Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
Usage notes
Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava' is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms '''brave''' (feminine) and ' bravi (masculine or mixed).Synonyms
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awesome
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(wikipedia awesome)Adjective
(en adjective)- The waterfall in the middle of the rainforest was an awesome sight .
- The tsunami was awesome in its destructive power.
- That was awesome !
- Awesome, dude!
Usage notes
The oldest meaning of "awesome" is "something which inspires awe", but the word is also a common slang expression in English, originally from America. As the original meaning of awesome'' has become somewhat antiquated in general use, the term ''awe-inspiring is now generally used for the same meaning.Synonyms
* (causing awe or terror) see * (excellent) excellent, super, phenomenal, fantastic, terrific; wicked, bang-up, cool, sweet (slang or informal); chur, cher (New Zealand)Derived terms
* awesomely * awesomeness * awesomestNoun
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- Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome . They made her legs look longer and leaner.
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- Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
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- “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome .”