carioca

¹ American  

[kar-ee-oh-kuh] / ˌkær iˈoʊ kə /

noun

1. a modification of the samba.

2. the music for this dance.

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Carioca ² American  

[kar-ee-oh-kuh, kah-ree-aw-kuh] / ˌkær iˈoʊ kə, ˌkɑ riˈɔ kə /

noun

1. a native of Rio de Janeiro.

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carioca British  

/ ˌkærɪˈəʊkə /

noun

1. a Brazilian dance similar to the samba

2. a piece of music composed for this dance

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Etymology

Origin of carioca¹

First recorded in 1930–35; after Carioca

Origin of Carioca²

1820–30; < Brazilian Portuguese < Tupi, equivalent to cari white + oca house or boca descendant of

Example Sentences

And while Brazilian pop ambassador Anitta introduced MTV’s core audience to funk carioca, those of us at De Los were introduced to Stephen Sanchez, the California-born country star making waves in Nashville.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

Over the next few years, the sound was repurposed in a variety of new contexts, alongside cumbia, funk carioca and other styles.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

And, on Sundays, half of Rio’s waterfront highway is closed to traffic, making the distinctive orange bikes a quintessentially carioca way to reach the beach.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2019

Ms. Pinheiro is a born-and-bred carioca, as Rio natives are known, unlike Ms. Bündchen, who hails from Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, bordering Argentina and Uruguay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 10, 2016

The music ended, and a voice announced in laboriously classic Portuguese, with only a trace of the guttural tonation of the carioca, that the most important news items of the day would be given.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry