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Word Meanings - BARRIO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • COLONIZATION
    Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
  • VILLAGERY
    Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
  • OUTSIDER
    1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
  • DISTRICT
    Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
  • COLONIZER
    One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
  • VILLAGER
    An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
  • JURISDICTION
    The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • DISTRICTION
    Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
  • COLONIZATIONIST
    A friend to colonization, esp. to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
  • COLONIZE
    To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.
  • JURISDICTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.
  • DISTRICTLY
    Strictly. Foxe.
  • OUTSIDE
    1. The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South.
  • VILLAGE
    A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top. Syn. -- Village, Hamlet, Town, City. In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have
  • REDISTRICT
    To divide into new districts.
  • RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
    A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
  • RECOLONIZATION
    A second or renewed colonization.
  • MISPAINT
    To paint ill, or wrongly.
  • INVILLAGED
    Turned into, or reduced to, a village. W. Browne.

 

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