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Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Sunday January 20, 2008
barrio, noun:
neighborhood; district
Barrio is a Spanish word meaning neighborhood, or district. Many of the people living in a Spanish barrio know each other and share the same church, shops, traditions and feast days, which unite them as a community.
Despite the associations of the word as often used today in the United States, a barrio is not necessarily a poor district.
Some common phrases including barrio are:
Ese chico no es del barrio.
That boy’s not from this neighborhood.
la pescadería del barrio
the local fish market
el Barrio Chino
Chinatown
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