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Definition of Carioca in English: Cariocanounˌkarɪˈəʊkəˌkerēˈōkə 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 DJs 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.
OriginMid 19th century: from Portuguese, from Tupi kari'oka 'house of the white man'. Definition of Carioca in US English: Cariocanounˌkerēˈōkə 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 DJs 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.
OriginMid 19th century: from Portuguese, from Tupi kari'oka ‘house of the white man’. |