samba
(noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
samba
(noun) a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
samba
(noun) music composed for dancing the samba
obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon
(noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
samba
(verb) dance the samba
Source: WordNet® 3.1
samba (countable and uncountable, plural sambas)
A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
samba (third-person singular simple present sambas, present participle sambaing, simple past and past participle sambaed)
To dance the samba.
• ambas, bamas
Source: Wiktionary
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
