"bravado" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɹɑːˈvɑːdoʊ/, /bɹəˈvɑːdoʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bravado.wav Forms: bravados [plural], bravadoes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ Etymology: From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|bravade||bragging or boasting}} French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), {{der|en|it|bravata}} Italian bravata Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|bravadoes}} bravado (countable and uncountable, plural bravados or bravadoes)
  1. A swaggering show of defiance or courage. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a show of defiance or courage): перчене (perčene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), фукане (fukane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), uhmakkuus (Finnish), bravade [feminine] (French), Angeberei [feminine] (German), Draufgängertum [neuter] (German), Gehabe [neuter] (German), Getue [neuter] (German), Getöse [neuter] (German), νταηλίκι (ntaïlíki) [neuter] (Greek), harciasság (Hungarian), virtus (Hungarian), erőfitogtatás (Hungarian), mannalæti [neuter] (Icelandic), sýndarhugrekki [neuter] (Icelandic), gaisciúlacht [feminine] (Irish), laochas [masculine] (Irish), bravata [feminine] (Italian), whakatumatuma (Maori), whāuraura (Maori), brawura [feminine] (Polish), bravata [feminine] (Portuguese), брава́да (braváda) [feminine] (Russian), bravata [feminine] (Spanish), bangad (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-bravado-en-noun-UzgggeSW Disambiguation of 'a show of defiance or courage': 55 44 1
  2. A false show of courage. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a false show of courage): 虛張聲勢 (Chinese Mandarin), 虚张声势 (xūzhāng-shēngshì) (Chinese Mandarin), Gehabe [neuter] (German), theatralisches Getue [neuter] (German), ψευτοπαληκαρισμός (pseftopalikarismós) [masculine] (Greek), νταηλίκι (ntaïlíki) [neuter] (Greek), hősködés (Hungarian), virtuskodás (Hungarian), legénykedés (Hungarian), mannalæti [neuter] (Icelandic), sýndarhugrekki [neuter] (Icelandic), gaisce [masculine] (Irish), laochas [masculine] (Irish), mórtas [masculine] (Irish), 虚勢 (kyosei) (Japanese), 空威張り (karaibari) (Japanese), bravata [feminine] (Portuguese), брава́да (braváda) [feminine] (Russian), bravata [feminine] (Spanish), bravuconada [feminine] (Spanish), bangad (Tagalog), брава́да (braváda) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-bravado-en-noun-5pSL6XW~ Disambiguation of 'a false show of courage': 22 78 1
  3. (obsolete) A swaggerer; a braggart. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bravade [obsolete]

Verb

IPA: /bɹɑːˈvɑːdoʊ/, /bɹəˈvɑːdoʊ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bravado.wav Forms: bravados [present, singular, third-person], bravadoing [participle, present], bravadoed [participle, past], bravadoed [past]
Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ Etymology: From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|bravade||bragging or boasting}} French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), {{der|en|it|bravata}} Italian bravata Head templates: {{en-verb}} bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)
  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-bravado-en-verb-dVyyigey
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bravade [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bravadoed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bravadoed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To swagger; to brag."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swagger",
          "swagger"
        ],
        [
          "brag",
          "brag"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹɑːˈvɑːdoʊ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bɹəˈvɑːdoʊ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bravado.wav",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bravado.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bravado.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːdəʊ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "bravade"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bravado"
}

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