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Barrio

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Spanish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
  2. 2
    an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country wordnet
  3. 3
    A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
  4. 4
    a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) wordnet
  5. 5
    A rural barangay or neighborhood. Philippines

    "In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen."

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  1. 6
    An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin. US, informal

    "After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Barrio.

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