Feminine
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rumba

Meaning

  1. (Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, feminine) party
  2. (feminine) rumba (Cuban dance)

Frequency

29k
Hyphenated as
rum‧ba
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈrumba/
Etymology

Cuban Spanish, from rumbo (“spree, party”), meaning evolved from "ostentation, pomp, leadership," perhaps originally "the course of a ship," from rombo (“rhombus”), referencing the compass, which is marked by a rhombus. See rhombus.

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