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noun, plural bar·ri·os 
[bahr-ee-ohz, bar-; Sp. bahr-ryaws] .
[bahr-ee-ohz, bar-; Sp. bahr-ryaws] . 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:
1890–95; < Spanish < Arabic barrī of open country (barr outside, open country + -ī adj. suffix)
1890–95; < Spanish < Arabic barrī of open country (barr outside, open country + -ī adj. suffix)
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barrio
1841, "ward of a Spanish or Sp.-speaking city," sometimes also used of rural settlements, from Sp. barrio "district, suburb," from Arabic barriya "open country" (fem.), from barr "outside" (of the city). Main modern sense of "Sp.-speaking district in a U.S. city" is 1939; original reference is to Spanish
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