Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country.
- n. A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A village or small town which has no independent administration, but which is subordinated to a larger town. See pueblo.
- n. A ward; a division of a termino or municipal district in Cuba.
Wiktionary
- n. informal An area or neighborhood in a U.S. city inhabited primarily by people speaking Spanish or of Hispanic origin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
- n. an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
Etymologies
- Spanish, from Arabic barrī, of an open area, from barr, open area; see brr in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The oldest "barrio" is far from the centre, on the far side of the San Juan river, spanned by a stone bridge.”
“Now the Spanish word 'barrio' is equivalent to the”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Each barrio is like a village where everyone knows everyone´s business.”
“The weather in barrio La Lejona or Santa Julia is just the same and often the views are the best.”
“Santa Marta would never be another Woodhill Terrace, but at least the word barrio in the mouth of a smug Anglo like Tori Carr wouldn't be synonymous with slum.”
“As I wrote recently, Latino neighborhoods have increasingly become gentrified as white people move into what used to be called the barrio.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel Cubias: Is Gentrification Always Bad?
“The barrio las Flores is called a barrio caliente because there is a little bit of diliquency during the evenings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barrio’.
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not prime real estate
describing areas where the poor, unhomed and oppressed are found. Some of these didn't belong in miserable circumstances.
villa miseria, urban decay, urban blight, trailer park, township, tent city, Tenderloin, squalor, slurb, slum, skid row, sink of corruption and 36 more...
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Spanish words with arabic etymology
Spanish words acquired from classical and andalusi Arabic
spanish words wit..., abelmosco, abenuz, aceite, aceituna, acerola, ajedrez, ajonjoli, albahaca, barrio, ojalá, Belen and 36 more...
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from spanish
translations from spanish words
demandable, recoverability, lariat, arena, vamoose, gringo, plaza, rebozo, vaquero, tortilla, barrio
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Missed words
Words I missed when practicing for the Spelling Bee
seicento, gnomon, clepsydra, detent, coccolithophore, gonyaulax, quoits, lamellibranch, alliteration, innocuous, saboteur, affenpinscher and 79 more...
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Spanish Spelling Bee List
i am still copying down lists but i am in the 5th grade and got fourth in the spelling bee out of 26 people, the word i missed was candelabra, well next year i will win because now i know the words
burrito, gazpacho, alligator, chinchilla, pueblo, quesadilla, flamenco, cabana, filibuster, cilantro, mesa, cafeteria and 60 more...
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City Slickers
metropolitan, metropolis, megalopolis, megacity, town, village, hamlet, neighborhood, urban, suburban, commute, metro and 15 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo 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 Jul 16, 2007