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单词 Carioca
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Definition of Carioca in English:

Carioca

nounˌkarɪˈəʊkəˌkerēˈōkə
  • 1A native of Rio de Janeiro.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One is a nordestino or a mineiro (native of the state of Minas Gerais) or a carioca (native of the city of Rio de Janeiro).
    • Many cariocas, as the residents of Rio de Janeiro are called, make a point of getting out of town long before things get started.
    • The first of these, Missoni, has chosen a look somewhere between hippy and carioca which features a never-before-seen fake fur needlepoint fabric.
    • If I dress in casual but clean and well-maintained clothes, appropriate to the local middle class, with ‘normal’, close cropped hair, I'm hardly noticed in a carioca crowd.
    • Its roughly 7 million people call themselves cariocas and have an argot all their own.
    • This carioca (someone born in Rio de Janeiro) guy really represents the best we have in Brazil.
    • Elsewhere, athletic ‘cariocas’ (natives of Rio) play endless games of beach-volleyball, using all parts of their bodies to keep the ball from slamming into the powdery sand.
    • You're familiar with that, you know how Orson Welles upon arriving in Rio excited the local cultured, worldly cariocas [inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, trans].
    • Not that I'm comparing myself to such a grand personage, but there is in Brazilians, especially the cariocas, a great thirst for exotic phenomena which are linked to ‘outside’ mythologies.
  • 2A Brazilian dance resembling the samba.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Already being picked up by DJ’s with a taste for the exotic, Kuduro looks set to follow the path of Brazilian funk carioca and reggaeton, emerging from the ghettos of Angola into the dance music mainstream.
    • Repeat shuffle, then carioca, starting with your left foot this time.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Portuguese, from Tupi kari'oka 'house of the white man'.

Definition of Carioca in US English:

Carioca

nounˌkerēˈōkə
  • 1A native of Rio de Janeiro.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You're familiar with that, you know how Orson Welles upon arriving in Rio excited the local cultured, worldly cariocas [inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, trans].
    • Its roughly 7 million people call themselves cariocas and have an argot all their own.
    • Many cariocas, as the residents of Rio de Janeiro are called, make a point of getting out of town long before things get started.
    • The first of these, Missoni, has chosen a look somewhere between hippy and carioca which features a never-before-seen fake fur needlepoint fabric.
    • This carioca (someone born in Rio de Janeiro) guy really represents the best we have in Brazil.
    • Not that I'm comparing myself to such a grand personage, but there is in Brazilians, especially the cariocas, a great thirst for exotic phenomena which are linked to ‘outside’ mythologies.
    • If I dress in casual but clean and well-maintained clothes, appropriate to the local middle class, with ‘normal’, close cropped hair, I'm hardly noticed in a carioca crowd.
    • Elsewhere, athletic ‘cariocas’ (natives of Rio) play endless games of beach-volleyball, using all parts of their bodies to keep the ball from slamming into the powdery sand.
    • One is a nordestino or a mineiro (native of the state of Minas Gerais) or a carioca (native of the city of Rio de Janeiro).
  • 2A Brazilian dance resembling the samba.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Already being picked up by DJ’s with a taste for the exotic, Kuduro looks set to follow the path of Brazilian funk carioca and reggaeton, emerging from the ghettos of Angola into the dance music mainstream.
    • Repeat shuffle, then carioca, starting with your left foot this time.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Portuguese, from Tupi kari'oka ‘house of the white man’.

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