Barbera

American  

[bahr-bair-uh, bahr-be-rah] / bɑrˈbɛər ə, bɑrˈbɛ rɑ /

noun

1. a red wine grape grown primarily in the Piedmont region of Italy and the Central Valley of California.

2. a dry red wine produced from this grape.

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Barbera British  

/ baːˈbeɪrə /

noun

1. Joseph. See Hanna

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Example Sentences

Although the erosion of America’s safe-haven status might be gradual, the caution flags, including past tariff actions and the country’s high level of debt, have been there for investors to worry about for a while, said Robert Barbera, a Johns Hopkins University economist.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This market can fall a lot before anybody can stand up and say, ‘God, do they look cheap,” Barbera said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s not as if you had a shutdown in an environment where people were comfortable saying the next six months was going to look like the last six months,” said Robert Barbera, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Financial Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the Duke, René Barbera, a light and agreeably lyric tenor, goes his own way.

From Los Angeles Times

Tomer Zvulun’s staging of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which premiered at the 2019 Houston Grand Opera, opens May 31, 2025, with Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola in her company debut and René Barbera.

From Seattle Times