Meanings
bro1
plural bros · alternative bra · alternative brah · alternative xro · alternative vro · alternative bru
- slangBrother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
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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 2025Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.
2025 October 7, Jason Zinoman, “What Clowns! (That’s a Compliment)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2025 - slangBrother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
Near-synonym: man
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don't tase me, bro
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!
Synonyms: man
- slangA frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
- derogatoryin compoundsslangusuallySomeone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
AI bro
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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 152One 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 11He'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
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Synonyms & antonyms
nounBrother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
Origin
bro · noun
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.
Full word history & related roots →Bro · proper noun
- Swedishbro“bridge”
- EnglishBro
* 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.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic أَخِي
- أَخِي (ʔaḵī)used to address a male
Bulgarian брат, братле
- брат (brat)used to address a male
- братле (bratle)used to address a male
- братко (bratko)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- брате (brate)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Catalan paio, tio
- paioused to address a male
- tioused to address a male
- sociused to address a male
- tiomale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- socimale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- amicmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- col·legamale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- companymale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Chinese Mandarin 兄弟 老兄
- 兄弟 老兄 (xiōngdi)used to address a male
Esperanto amiko, ulo
- amikoused to address a male
- uloused to address a male
- samideanomale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- kamaradomale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- fraĉjodiminutive of brother
Finnish äijä, kaveri
- äijäused to address a male
- kaveriused to address a male
- jätkäused to address a male
- jäbäused to address a male
- toverimale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- aatetoverimale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- velimale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- veikkodiminutive of brother
- veikkadiminutive of brother
- veikkonendiminutive of brother
French frérot, frérot
- frérotused to address a male
- frérotmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Greek αδερφάκι, καρντάσι
- αδερφάκι (aderfáki)used to address a male
- καρντάσι (karntási)used to address a male
- μπρο (bro)used to address a male
- σύντροφος (sýntrofos)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Hebrew אָחִי
- אָחִי (akhí)used to address a male
Hungarian tesó
- tesómale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Indonesian bung, bung
- bungused to address a male
- bungmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Italian fratello
- fratelloused to address a male
Japanese 兄弟, ブラザー
- 兄弟 (kyōdai)used to address a male
- ブラザー (burazā)used to address a male
- 兄ちゃん (nīchan)diminutive of brother
- 兄貴 (aniki)diminutive of brother
Persian داداش, حاجی
- داداش (dâdâš)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- حاجی (hâji)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Polish brach, braciak
- brachmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- braciakmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Portuguese mano
- manoused to address a male
Russian брата́н, брато́к
- брата́н (bratán)used to address a male
- брато́к (bratók)used to address a male
- бра́тец (brátec)used to address a male
- брати́шка (bratíška)used to address a male
- брата́н (bratán)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- брато́к (bratók)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- бра́тец (brátec)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- брати́шка (bratíška)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Spanish hermano, tío
- hermanoused to address a male
- tíoused to address a male
- compadremale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- brodermale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- colegamale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- tíomale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- weymale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- pibemale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- manomale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Tamil மச்சான், மச்சி
- மச்சான் (maccāṉ)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- மச்சி (macci)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- பங்கு (paṅku)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- சகோ (cakō)diminutive of brother
Turkish kanka, kanka
- kankaused to address a male
- kankamale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Yiddish חבֿר, גוטער־ברודער
- חבֿר (khaver)used to address a male
- גוטער־ברודער (guter-bruder)used to address a male
- חבֿר (khaver)male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
- גוטער־ברודערmale comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
bro. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bro
“bro.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bro. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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