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Meaning of Aguinaldo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/[ʔɐ.ɡɪˈn̪al.d̪o]/

Definitions

  1. A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A municipality of Ifugao, Philippines.
  3. A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
    countable, uncountable
  4. Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
    countable, uncountable
  5. A Christmas carol.
    Latin-America, countable, uncountable
  6. A song performed in this style.
    countable, uncountable
  7. A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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