barrio
noun [C] /ˈbær.i.əʊ/
/ˈbɑːr.i.oʊ/ Definition
› in the US, a part of a city where poor, mainly Spanish-speaking people liveAreas in towns and cities › in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries, one of the areas into which a city is divided
(Definition of barrio noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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