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Encore vs Bravo - What's the difference?

encore | bravo |

As nouns the difference between encore and bravo

is that encore is a brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete while bravo is a hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.

As interjections the difference between encore and bravo

is that encore is please perform again while bravo is used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

As verbs the difference between encore and bravo

is that encore is to call for an extra performance or repetition while bravo is to cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!

encore

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
    • To play an encore .
    Can I get an encore ? We want more!
  • A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
    • The encores were numerous.

    Interjection

  • (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!

    • Verb

    (encor)
  • To call for an extra performance or repetition.
  • To call for an encore.
    • English borrowed terms ----

    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. }} ----