SAMBA

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


Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

samba (third-person singular simple present sambas, present participle sambaing, simple past and past participle sambaed)

To dance the samba.

Anagrams

• ambas, bamas

Source: Wiktionary



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