Usually means: Residential district, often historically marginalized.
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  1. barrio: Merriam-Webster
  2. barrio: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barrio: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barrio: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barrio: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barrio, barrio: Wordnik
  7. barrio: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Barrio, barrio: Wiktionary
  9. barrio: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barrio: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barrio: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barrio, barrio: Dictionary.com
  13. barrio: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. barrio: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Barrio (disambiguation), Barrio (film), Barrio (song), Barrio (surname), Barrio: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. barrio: Rhymezone
  17. barrio: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. barrio: FreeDictionary.org
  19. barrio: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. barrio: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. barrio: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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  2. the Barrio: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
noun:  A slum on the periphery of a major city, or a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city, in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic.
noun:  (Philippines) A rural barangay or neighborhood.
noun:  (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
noun:  A surname from Spanish.

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