barrio
noun
bar·rio
| \ ˈbär-ē-ˌō
, ˈber-, ˈba-rē-
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, ˈber-, ˈba-rē-
\
plural barrios
Definition of barrio
1
: a ward, quarter, or district of a city or town in a Spanish-speaking country
2
: a Spanish-speaking quarter or neighborhood in a city or town in the U.S. especially in the Southwest
Examples of barrio in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Stock one of their bright kitchens with traditional Spanish delights from Mercado de San Antón for a deeper taste of day-to-day life in the barrio. — Elizabeth Wellington, Vogue, "Plan a Summer Stay in Salesas, Madrid’s Smallest Neighborhood," 25 May 2019 Country came not from the affluent and the accepted, but from the fringes of America–from the hills and hollows, from Sunday morning and Saturday night, from barrios and blues clubs. — Jon Meacham, Time, "Country Music Should Be Political. After All, It Always Has Been," 15 Aug. 2019 And young white men, joined by U.S. servicemen on leave, attacked anyone wearing a zoot suit, a flamboyant outfit popular in the barrios at the time. — Jordan Riefe, Orange County Register, "What’s hot in OC arts and entertainment for August," 31 July 2019 Ortiz is widely adored from the Dominican barrios to American boardrooms. — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, "Long before the shooting, Big Papi had brushes with people who ‘want something from me’," 20 July 2019 On July 20, 1969, high school senior Sylvia Salinas left Oaklawn Assembly of God Church in Houston’s eastern barrio early with the rest of her family to gather at her aunt’s house and watch the moon landing on a grainy black-and-white television. — Los Angeles Times, "How the women of NASA made their mark on the space program," 16 July 2019 On the other side of the barrio, the breathtaking Church of Santa Bárbara presides over Plaza de las Salesas next to the former Salesas Reales Convent. — Elizabeth Wellington, Vogue, "Plan a Summer Stay in Salesas, Madrid’s Smallest Neighborhood," 25 May 2019 Your barrio, your amigos and amigas, your whole race, nation of origin, culture and rowdy neighbors, are all your gente. — Bianca Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, "‘A stranger in my own community’: Mixed feelings as young Latinos move back to gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods," 2 July 2019 Back in her barrio, she’s deemed as an outsider because of her Anglo diction and ways. — Marc Silver, Washington Post, "Another round! The Season 3 renewal of Starz’s ‘Vida’ was well deserved.," 9 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'barrio.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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