Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Brazilian dance in duple meter of African origin, performed in groups, by couples, or as a solo.
- noun The music for this dance.
- intransitive verb To perform this dance.
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- noun A Brazilian ballroom dance.
- verb To dance the samba.
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- verb dance the samba
- noun large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
- noun music composed for dancing the samba
- noun a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
- noun a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word samba means to dance and invoke the African spirits.
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Gentle passages soon yielded to vigorous ones, and the word samba'' lost its cool when turned into a football-style chant.
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The word samba means to dance and invoke the African spirits.
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They struck up "Porta Romana bella, Porta Romana" in samba beat.
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Curimin's style is sometimes called samba-funk, and it incorporates many jazz, bossa nova, and hip hop elements as well.
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We haven't done the samba yet, so I think the samba will be a challenge for him.
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We made it toward a parade with bands playing, streamers waving, people dancing in ways I´ve never seen it´s called samba! and the caparinhas FLOWING!
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By playing jembe, you have to use a dundun drum, which is a very heavy base, and then you use another tone -- another instrument called a samba (ph), which is used to harmonize the music with it.
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If you've seen pictures of Carnival, chances are they were taken at these neighborhood camps known as "samba schools" during the parades where cariocas somehow manage to simultaneously wear extravagant costumes while staying relatively naked.
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