单词 | barriada |
释义 | barriadan. In Peru: a settlement of (recent) migrants, or an area of improvised housing, typically impoverished or lacking public utilities, and situated on the outskirts of a large city; a shanty town, a slum.Such areas were officially renamed pueblos jovenes in 1968, although informal usage continues. Cf. pueblo joven n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > in Spain or Spanish-speaking country barrio1841 barriada1959 1959 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 Aug. (Pictorial Gravure Mag.) 10/1 New arrivals in Lima go to one of the established barriadas,..or they ‘invade’ a piece of property and start their own barriada. 1964 Times 10 Dec. 11/2 Comas, one of the rapidly expanding barriadas..on the outskirts of Lima, to which electric current was soon to be connected. 1971 Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 7 May 149 Carpio..had previously been directly responsible to the prime minister, administering the pueblos jovenes, as Lima's shanty towns (formerly barriadas ) are now supposed to be called. 1991 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 18 May a1 In a barriada in Peru, people live close together... You can't hide..when people live behind cardboard and tin walls. 2001 B. Lietaer Future of Money 140 Their descendants are still there in the barrios, barriadas, villas, favelas, and other shanty towns. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1959 |
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