bro
UK/ˈbɹəʊ̯/
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Australia/ˈbɹəʉ̯/
bro noun: brother (a male sibling).
Noun
bro (plural bros)
- Brother (a male sibling).
- My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
- Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
- Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
- Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.2022 May 4, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but 'it's more than just a GI Jane joke'”, in Cele|bitchy, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025
- Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
- Near-synonym: man
- don't tase me, bro
- Synonyms:
- man
- A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
- Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
- Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152
- One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11
Adjective capitalized: BRO
BRO (not comparable)
Proper noun capitalized: Bro
Bro (plural Bros)
- A surname.
bro meaning in Tamil, Pashto, Arabic and Indonesian
bro in Tamil
- diminutive of brother
- சகோ cakō
- male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- மச்சான் maccāṉ, மச்சி macci, பங்கு paṅku
bro in Pashto
- used to address a male
- مړه
bro in Arabic
- used to address a male
- أَخِي ʔaḵī
bro in Indonesian
- used to address a male
- bung
- male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- bung
More languagesFewer languages
- bro in Persian
- داداش dâdâš, حاجی hâji
Examples of bro in a sentence
- Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?
- Bro said he finna go off today!
- He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:
Synonyms of bro
Forms of bro
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bros |
| alternative form | bra |
| alternative form | brah |
| alternative form | xro |
| alternative form | vro |
| alternative form | bru |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bros |
Origin of bro
PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brotherclip. English bro Spelling pronunciation and clipping of brother. (Contrast bruh, which is a clipping of the pronunciation of brother rather than the spelling.) Compare Swedish bror.
* As a North Germanic/Scandinavian topographic surname from either Danish, Norwegian or Swedish bro (“bridge”). * As a French surname, variant of Brault and Breaux. * As an Irish surname, possibly a variant of Broe, Brew.
Words formed from bro
- AI bro
- basic bro
- Bernie bro
- big bro
- Brobot
- brocast
- brochacho
- brocialism
- brocialist
- bro code
- bro-country
- bro culture
- brodeo
- brodown
- bro down
- broette
- broey
- brofessor
- brofist
- broflake
- bro globes
- brogrammer
- brogressive
- brohawk
- brohemian
- brohoof
- brohug
- bro-hug
- broification
- broish
- brojob
- brolationship
- broligarch
- broligarchy
- bromance
- bromantic
- bromantical
- bromantically
- bromeopathy
- bromigo
- broness
- brony
- bro out
- broscience
- broscientist
- broseph
- brosephine
- BroShep
- broship
- broski
- brosky
- brosmaid
- brospeak
- brostep
- bro talk
- brotastic
- brotini
- brotox
- BroTP
- bro-y
Phrases with bro
- bro hug
- gym bro
- lax bro
- lil bro
- bro hugs
- DOGE bro
- dude bro
- film bro
- tech bro
- bro codes
- bro speak
- sugar bro
9 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with bro
Questions about bro
- What does bro mean?
- Bro means brother (a male sibling).
- What is bro in Tamil?
- Bro in Tamil is சகோ (cakō), மச்சான் (maccāṉ), மச்சி (macci). See Bro meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bro in a sentence?
- Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?
- What part of speech is bro?
- Bro can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bro?
- Bro is pronounced /ˈbɹəʊ̯/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bro?
- The plural of bro is bros.
Words near bro in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bro (page history and authors); BRO (page history and authors); Bro (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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