Definitions for barrio

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barrio bar·ri·o

Spelling: [bahr-ee-oh, bar-; Spanish bah

IPA: /ˈbɑr iˌoʊ, ˈbær-; Spanish ˈbɑr ryɔ/

Barrio is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in barrio (abiorr).

Definitions for barrio

noun

1. (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.
2. a part of a large U.S. city, especially a crowded inner-city area, inhabited chiefly by a Spanish-speaking population.

Origin of barrio

1890-95; Spanish Arabic barrī of open country (barr outside, open country + -ī adj. suffix)

Examples for barrio

They had reached the barrio where the meeting was to be held.

After he has found a barrio that suits him, he buys a house, a carabao, and a cart.

Yet the inhabitants of this barrio are quite contented and fairly comfortable.

The majority of the violence in Honduras is carried out by two main gangs, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, and barrio 18.

He received $100 per month, and had charge of the police in his barrio, or precinct.

He became a capitan,2 and was greatly honored by the inhabitants of his barrio.

Their community lay between the Parian and the barrio of Laguio.

Mr barrio has also, whilst I am correcting my proofs, delighted London with a servant who knows more than his masters.

Alberto often pushed a shopping cart through his barrio, collecting cans for spare cash to support himself and his mayate.

There was great feasting and celebration in the barrio that night.