Samba

Quick meaning: Samba is a noun meaning (dance) A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

Meaning

(dance) A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

More Meanings

1. (music) A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
2. (intransitive) To dance the samba.

Example Sentences

They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”

And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby

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.

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.”

Word Forms

• sambas
• sambaing
• sambaed

Synonyms for samba

Depending on context, synonyms include obeche.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obeche, assistant, pillar, baiao, botafogo, sambadrome.

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