'Barrio' definitions:
Definition of 'barrio'
(from WordNet)
noun
A Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States)
noun
An urban area in a Spanish-speaking country
Definition of 'Barrio'
From: GCIDE
- Barrio \Bar"ri*o\, n.; pl. Barrios. [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. +PJC]
Synonyms of 'barrio'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- Bowery,
- business district,
- central city,
- Chinatown,
- city center,
- core,
- downtown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- inner city,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- 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,
- West End,
- West Side