What does "samba" mean?

A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

What is a synonym for "samba"?

Common synonyms include: arere, dance, hustle, jig, obeche, obeche.

//ˈsɑmbə// name, noun, verb

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Noun

1
A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. countable, uncountable
2
a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers wordnet
3
A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. countable, uncountable
"And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby"
4
a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa wordnet
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music composed for dancing the samba wordnet

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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 wordnet

Verb

1
To dance the samba.
"In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style."
2
dance the samba wordnet