congratulation

1 the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration [syn: felicitation]

2 (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another; "I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage" [syn: felicitation]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

Noun

1. The act of congratulating.

Translations

• Arabic: تهنئة (Tahni:a)
• Dutch: gelukwens , felicitatie
• Finnish: onnittelu, onnitteleminen
• French: félicitations f|p
• German: Glückwunsch , Beglückwünschung
• Hebrew: כל הכבוד (col hacavod) (all the honor)
• Kurdish:
• Polish: gratulacje
• Portuguese: parabéns m|p
• Spanish: felicitación

Derived terms

• congratulate
• self-congratulation

Bravo may refer to:

In media:

• Bravo!, a specialty arts channel in Canada
• Bravo (magazine), a youth magazine in Germany and Russia
• BRAVO TV, a German television program
• Bravo (UK TV channel), a British digital television channel
• Bravo (US TV channel), an American cable television network

In music:

• Bravo (group), a Russian pop-rock band
• Bravo (5566 album)
• Bravo, a Spanish musical group at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984

In other usage:

• Bravo (software), the first WYSIWYG word processor, developed at Xerox PARC
• Bravo, Cuba, a community in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba
• BRAVO Volunteer Ambulance, a free volunteer ambulance service in New York City
• Fiat Bravo, a compact car
• Bravo Awards, former name of the ALMA Awards
• Bravo Airlines, an airline based in Madrid, Spain
• Bravo Telecom, a Saudi wireless operator
• Bravo class submarine, a design of military submarines built in the Soviet Union
• Bravo or chlorothalonil, a fungicide

People with the surname

• Angel Bravo (born 1942), Venezuelan baseball player
• Daniel Bravo (born 1963), French international footballer
• Dino Bravo (1949 - 1993), professional wrestler
• Dwayne Bravo (born 1983), West Indian cricketer
• Omar Bravo (born 1980), Mexican footballer
• Rose Marie Bravo, American businesswoman

See also

• Castle Bravo, code name of the first U.S. test of fusion thermonuclear device
• Operation Bravo, a military operation during the Vietnam War
• Johnny Bravo

accolade, adulation, apotheosis, bepraisement, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, flattery, glorification, glory, hero worship, homage, hommage, honor, idolatry, idolizing, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, overpraise, paean, panegyric, praise, tribute