barrio
(noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
barrio
(noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Barrio (plural Barrios)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Barrio is the 25503rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 969 individuals. Barrio is most common among Hispanic/Latino (81.63%) and White (13.31%) individuals.
barrio (plural barrios)
(in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
(in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
(in the Philippines) A barangay.
(informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"ri*o, n.; pl. Barrios (#). [Sp.]
Definition: In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
