Barrios
[bahr-ryaws]
- Jus·to Ru·fi·no [hoo-staw roo-fee-naw] /ˈhu stɔ ruˈfi nɔ/, 1835–85, Guatemalan statesman: president of Guatemala 1873–85.
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barrio
[bahr-ee-oh, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryaw]
- (in Spain and countries colonized by Spain) one of the divisions into which a town or city, together with the contiguous rural territory, is divided.
- a part of a large U.S. city, especially a crowded inner-city area, inhabited chiefly by a Spanish-speaking population.
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Origin of barrio
1890–95; < Spanish < Arabic barrī of open country (barr outside, open country + -ī adj. suffix)
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Examples from the Web for barrios
Contemporary Examples
In the barrios of Los Angeles the gangsters get the most props and respect.
Barrios sentenced the general to 50 years imprisonment for genocide and another 30 years for crimes against humanity.
Historical Examples
But the faction Barrios joined needed to fear no political betrayal.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
You might have let me go with Barrios if you had cared for me.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
Her second son, Jaime, had just gone off on the Staff of Barrios.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
It was a good idea—and Barrios was the only instrument of its realization.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
When I return in triumph, as you say, with Barrios, I may find you all destroyed.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
barrio
- a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city, esp in the US
- a Spanish-speaking community
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Word Origin
from Spanish, from Arabic barrī of open country, from barr open country
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Word Origin and History for barrios
barrio
n.
1841, "ward of a Spanish or Spanish-speaking city," sometimes also used of rural settlements, from Spanish barrio "district, suburb," from Arabic barriya "open country" (fem.), from barr "outside" (of the city). Main modern sense of "Spanish-speaking district in a U.S. city" is 1939; original reference is to Spanish Harlem in New York City.
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