Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country.
- noun A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a US city.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A village or small town which has no independent administration, but which is subordinated to a larger town. See
pueblo . - noun A ward; a division of a termino or municipal district in Cuba.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs; in Spanish-speaking areas of cities in the United States, it is a neighborhood, ward, or quarter inside a town.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal An area or
neighborhood in a U.S. city inhabited primarily by people speaking Spanish or ofHispanic origin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
- noun an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The oldest "barrio" is far from the centre, on the far side of the San Juan river, spanned by a stone bridge.
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The oldest "barrio" is far from the centre, on the far side of the San Juan river, spanned by a stone bridge.
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The oldest "barrio" is far from the centre, on the far side of the San Juan river, spanned by a stone bridge.
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Now the Spanish word 'barrio' is equivalent to the
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849
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As for me a white man, born in San Francisco 1971, lived in every ghetto and barrio from the west coast to the east coast, raised by a hippie who has done everything from walking with Rev. King to the DNC 1972 Chicago.
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We are designing charlas (informal presentations about a specific theme) to give to a target group at our school in barrio Kami, which is near where we are living.
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The EE crew painted this mural as a thankyou to the Colegio Gran Mariscal Sucre in barrio Kami, where we have worked periodically throughout training.
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Each barrio is like a village where everyone knows everyone´s business.
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Each barrio is like a village where everyone knows everyone´s business.
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Each barrio is like a village where everyone knows everyone´s business.
fbharjo commented on the word barrio
barrio is derived from a semitic root:
Semitic Roots
ENTRY: brr.
DEFINITION: To be(come) clear, pure, white. 1. barrio, from Arabic barr, open (of land), rural, from barr, open area, akin to barra, to be kind, true, in derived stem barrara, to clear, acquit. 2. birr2, from Amharic brr, coin, silver (< “white metal�?).
source American Heritage Dictionary
July 16, 2007