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Bravo vs Brava - What's the difference?

bravo | brava |

As interjections the difference between bravo and brava

is that bravo is used to express acclaim, especially to a performer while brava is alternative form of lang=en, when spoken to a female performer.

As a noun bravo

is a hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.

As a verb bravo

is to cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!

bravo

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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:
    • 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.
  • A shout of "!"
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Kate Dickinson Sweetser, title=Boys and girls from Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.}}
  • The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

    • Synonyms

    * (hired soldier) see

    Interjection

  • Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
    • 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

    * See

    Related terms

    * bravissimo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=May Agnes Fleming, title=The Baronet's Bride, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. }} ----

    brava

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • , when spoken to a female performer.
    • ----