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

Equivalents

Italiano Aguinaldo

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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