English Dictionary

barrio

名詞

ドミニカ共和国 固有名詞 フィリピン英語 アメリカ英語 くだけた表現

(Venezuela, Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city. / (Spanish America) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.

日本語の意味

大都市周辺のスラム街、低～中所得層の住宅地域 / 小都市にある低～中階層の地域 / スペイン系アメリカ地域では、自治体またはその行政区画

She grew up in a barrio on the outskirts of Caracas, where neighbors shared everything.

彼女はカラカス郊外のスラムで育ち、近所の人々は何でも分かち合っていました。

意味（1）

(Venezuela, Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.

意味（2）

(Spanish America) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.

意味（3）

(Philippines) A barangay.

In the barrio, they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.

意味（4）

(informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.

barrios （ plural ）