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barrio¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).
noun barrios
- A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
- 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.
- A rural barangay or neighborhood. 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.
- An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin. 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.
Barrio²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish Barrio.
proper noun Barrios
- A surname from Spanish.
Talk about this word "barrio." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/barrio. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. barrio. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/barrio "barrio." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/barrio.Cite this
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title = {barrio},
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