Barrios

[bahr-ryaws]

noun

Jus·to Ru·fi·no

[hoo-staw roo-fee-naw] /ˈhu stɔ ruˈfi nɔ/, 1835–85, Guatemalan statesman: president of Guatemala 1873–85.

barrio

[bahr-ee-oh, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryaw]

noun, plural bar·ri·os [bahr-ee-ohz, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryaws] /ˈbɑr iˌoʊz, ˈbær-; Spanish ˈbɑr ryɔs/.

(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.

Origin of barrio

1890–95; < Spanish < Arabic barrī of open country (barr outside, open country + -ī adj. suffix)

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Related Words for barrios

sector, region, part, place, point, downtown, slum, ghetto, province, division, direction, position, zone, district, locality, bearing, section, spot, domain, zoo

Examples from the Web for barrios

Contemporary Examples of barrios

In the barrios of Los Angeles the gangsters get the most props and respect.
The Mexican Mafia Is the Daddy of All Street Gangs
Seth Ferranti
December 11, 2014
Barrios sentenced the general to 50 years imprisonment for genocide and another 30 years for crimes against humanity.
Guatemalan Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Guilty of Genocide
Mac Margolis
May 14, 2013

Historical Examples of barrios

But the faction Barrios joined needed to fear no political betrayal.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
You might have let me go with Barrios if you had cared for me.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
Her second son, Jaime, had just gone off on the Staff of Barrios.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
It was a good idea—and Barrios was the only instrument of its realization.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
When I return in triumph, as you say, with Barrios, I may find you all destroyed.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad

British Dictionary definitions for barrios

barrio

noun plural -rios

a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city, esp in the US

a Spanish-speaking community

Word Origin for barrio

from Spanish, from Arabic barrī of open country, from barr open country

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Word Origin and History for barrios

barrio

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.