samba
/ˈsɑmbə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Example Sentences
- "And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby"
- "They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”"
- "Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, throughout his career. […] “A samba parade had turned into a brawl,” a reviewer wrote in the Times, adding that the music “suggested a more cool-headed, grown-up epilogue to the shocks of Tropicália.”"
- "In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɑmbə/