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say it: bruh-VYUUR-uh
bravura is a noun meaning "brilliant and showy technical skill". It is pronounced /bɹəˈvjʊɹə/ — bruh-VYUUR-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
brilliant and showy technical skill
“in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water”
“the music ends with a display of bravura”
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 bravura 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.