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barrio
[ bahr-ee-oh, bar-; Spanish bahr-ryaw ]
noun
- (in Spain and countries colonized by Spain) one of the divisions into which a town or city, together with the contiguous rural territory, is divided.
- a part of a large U.S. city, especially a crowded inner-city area, inhabited chiefly by a Spanish-speaking population.
barrio
/ ˈbarrjo; ˈbærɪəʊ /
noun
- a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city, esp in the US
- a Spanish-speaking community
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of barrio1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of barrio1
Example Sentences
In reality, she was a “working-class Mexicana from Mazatlan who fled north to reclaim a tiny corner of a Los Angeles barrio, Frogtown,†he says.
“It was always about barrios, borders and bodegas,†she told NPR’s “All Things Considered†in 2006, describing what publishers and readers expected from her.
“Fernando wasn’t very dedicated to the people of his barrio — beyond his own family,†said Luna, the former league president.
Their continued refusal to erect a memorial to the barrios upon which Dodger Stadium was built contradicts the spirit of a city that wants to grapple with all of its history, comfortable and not.
How he inspired Latinos to root for a franchise whose original sin was building a ballpark on the site of barrios that the city had demolished in the name of progress.
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