samba

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/ˈsɑmbə/

noun 2verb 1name 1

Collocations

VERB + SAMBA

dance, dances, don't, know, like, note, trade, try

I love to dance samba at the carnival every year with my friends.

SAMBA + NOUN

anything, brazilian, guaran, music, sun, tango

The samba music filled the streets during Rio's famous Carnival celebration last year.

Definitions

noun

A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.

And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby

They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”

verb

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.

name

A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Synonyms

noun — large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves

obeche
obechi
arere

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And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby

Wiktionary

They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”

Wiktionary

Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, througho

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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.

Wiktionary

Samba is a Brazilian rhythm, isn't it?

Tatoeba · #328891

The tamborim lends a very slightly uneven and highly distinctive 16th note groove to samba music.

Tatoeba · #814505

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