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In some senses, barrio is marked as informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
barrio
noun 4name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
organized, own
VERB + BARRIO
stumbling, time
BARRIO + NOUN
host, itself
PREP.
in, through, with
ADV.
excitedly
Definitions
noun
1
A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2
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.
3
A rural barangay or neighborhood.
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.
4
An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
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.
Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
name
1
A surname from Spanish.
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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
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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
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Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
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New York City's premiere Latino art museum, El Museo del Barrio, is now host to a world-touring exhibition of 20th Century Mexican Art.
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