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say it: BRAH-voh
bravo is a noun and verb 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". It is pronounced /ˈbɹɑvoʊ/ — BRAH-voh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
“his assassins were hunted down like animals”
“assassinators of kings and emperors”
politics
a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance
applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava'
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bravo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.