Spanish word
barrio
/ˈbarjo/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 589 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- neighborhood
- neighbourhood
- any neighbourhood of the original or ancient part of a city (usually excluding new growth after the 1930s, 40s or 50s, depending on the state or city)Mexico
- slumDominican-Republic, Venezuela
- neck of the woods(a local neighbourhood or region)
- quarter(section of a town)
- suburb(Australian, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English: any subdivision of a conurbation)
- ward(Mormonism: subdivision of church)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)