Barrio is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional, social, architectural or morphological features.

What is barrio in English?

1 : a ward, quarter, or district of a city or town in a Spanish-speaking country. 2 : a Spanish-speaking quarter or neighborhood in a city or town in the U.S. especially in the Southwest.

Does barrio mean ghetto?

Yesterday I was trying to stumble through a Spanish conversation and needed to use a word that means "neighborhood." I almost went with "barrio," but even though I know this word translates to "neighborhood," I heard that it is more synonymous to an area that we would consider "the ghetto," or "the hood."