📖 Definitions of "Samba"
noun
- 1
A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
- 2
A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
verb
- 1
To dance the samba.
🔄 Synonyms of "Samba"
4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| obechenoun | The wood of this tree; whitish yellow in colour and easy to process. |
| arerenoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| obechinoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| triplochiton scleroxcylonnoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Samba"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| obechenoun | The wood of this tree; whitish yellow in colour and easy to process. |
| arerenoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| obechinoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| triplochiton scleroxcylonnoun | large west african tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood |
| assistantnoun | A person who assists or helps someone else. |
| mennoun | (collective, dated, fantasy) (The) people, humanity, man(kind). |
| pillarnoun | (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture. |
| baiaonoun | A South American dance similar to a samba. |
| bossa novanoun | A genre of music originating from Brazil, similar to a fusion of jazz and samba music, no longer closely associated with the Brazilian dance. |
| botafogonoun | A dance step in samba. |
| sambadromenoun | In Brazil, a building or place where samba schools parade during the period of Carnival. |
| batucadanoun | A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba. |
| sambistnoun | (martial arts) A practitioner of Sambo. |
| mambonoun | A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. |
| sokkienoun | A South African style of ballroom dancing. |
| salsanoun | (countable) A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers. |
| lambadanoun | (preceded by definite article) A fast-paced, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples dance with their stomachs touching. |
| sembanoun | (music) A genre of traditional music and dance from Angola. |
| sambonoun | (derogatory) A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom. |
| bailenoun | (usually "baile funk") A specific genre of dance music originating in Rio de Janeiro, also known as Funk Carioca |
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