barrio

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.
  4. 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.

词形变化

barrios plural

词汇关系

衍生词
barriotic subbarrio

词源

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