Definitions
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- proper noun shortened form of
Rio de Janeiro - proper noun A male
given name - proper noun A female
given name
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Examples
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Carnival erupted Friday in Rio with raucous street parties that brought together cheering, drum-beating locals with sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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OSS 177: LOST IN RIO 2 stars (NR) Jean Dujardin reprises his hilariously clueless character of vapid French secret agent code-named OSS 177, who encounters hippies, Nazis, masked wrestlers and a hot, go-go-garbed Mossad Colonel on a mission in Rio.
Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed Anum Mohammad 2010
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The plot of THAT NIGHT IN RIO concerns Larry, a nightclub entertainer in Rio (Don Ameche) who is a dead ringer for an aristocratic businessman, Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche).
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, March 11 (acn) Construction companies form western Pinar del Rio province, backed by the construction material industry, built 759 houses during January and February, including the replacement of 620 destroyed by the hurricanes that devastated this territory last year.
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RIO. ax) both fell on lower metal prices, with BHP down 0.6 percent to A$38. 62 and Rio down 0.5 percent to A$64. 69.
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RIO. ax) both fell on lower metal prices, with BHP down 0.6 percent to A$38. 62 and Rio down 0.5 percent to A$64. 69.
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RIO. ax) both fell on lower metal prices, with BHP down 0.6 percent to A$38. 62 and Rio down 0.5 percent to A$64. 69.
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Of course everybody asks whether Rio is as beautiful as people say.
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The Apaches, then and always, were the worst of all, In his numerous entradas he explored the region of his labours pretty thoroughly, reaching, in 1698, a hill from which he saw how the gulf ended at the mouth of the Colorado; and the following year he was again down the Gila, which he called Rio de los
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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Four leagues farther they saw another, which they called Rio del Sol.
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1892
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