barrio

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bar=rio

CIDE DICTIONARY

barrio, n. [Sp.].

 In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs; in Spanish-speaking areas of cities in the United States, it is a neighborhood, ward, or quarter inside a town.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

barrio, n. (pl. -os) (in the US) the Spanish-speaking quarter of a town or city.

Etymology

Sp., = district of a town

THESAURUS

barrio

Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, midtown, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, uptown, urban blight