favela
[ fuh-vel-uh; Portuguese fah-ve-lah ]
/ fəˈvɛl ə; Portuguese fɑˈvɛ lɑ /
noun
a shantytown in or near a city, especially in Brazil; slum area.
Origin of favela
1945–50; < Brazilian Portuguese: alleged to be a name given to a hill in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, where such towns were built circa 1900; literally, a shrub of the family Euphorbiaceae, derivative of Portuguese
fava bean < Latin
faba
Words nearby favela
faux pas,
faux-naïf,
fauxbourdon,
fava bean,
fave,
favela,
favelado,
favella,
favellidium,
faveolate,
faveolus
Example sentences from the Web for favela
I interviewed Lilian, a single mother living in a Rio de Janeiro favela.
What Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Can Teach Hillary Clinton |Heather Arnet |October 29, 2014 |DAILY BEASTThe high school kids who broke it were Brazilian Linux hackers who lived in a favela -- a kind of squatter's slum.
Little Brother |Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for favela
favela
/ (fɑːˈveɪlə) /
noun
(in Brazil) a shanty or shantytown
Word Origin for favela
C20: from Portuguese