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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country.
  2. n. A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A village or small town which has no independent administration, but which is subordinated to a larger town. See pueblo.
  2. n. A ward; a division of a termino or municipal district in Cuba.

Wiktionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. n. a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
  2. n. an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country

Etymologies

  1. 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)

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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

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