Meaning of barrio | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. A surname from Spanish.
3. 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.
4. A rural barangay or neighborhood.
   Philippines
5. An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
   US, informal

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio”

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