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.