bravo

Noun

• a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance

• 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
    

Verb

• applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava'

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  assassin , assassinator