barrio

Meanings

1. A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.
2. 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.
3. A rural barangay or neighborhood.
4. An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

1. A surname from Spanish.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish barrio, from Arabic بَرِّيّ (barriyy, “wild”).