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rio
/ˈɹioʊ/
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What does rio mean?
noun
- Alternative form of ryō (“Japanese ounce”).
- A grade of Spanish saffron, in quality below mancha and coupé but above standard and sierra.
- Initialism of radar intercept officer.
More meanings (10)
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Rio de Janeiro.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
- A town and former municipality of Achaea regional unit, West Greece region, Greece.
- A census-designated place in Martin County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Spalding County, Georgia, United States.
- A village in Knox County, Illinois, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
- A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin (pronounced /ˈɹaɪoʊ/).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹioʊ/
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See this word in context.
Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves.
The removal of the troops out of Pinar del Rio was the means of at once checking the propagation of the disease.
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At this latter place as at Rio an epidemic of yellow fever was raging, so we had not got a clean bill-of-health.
The Spray, with a number of old shipmasters on board, sailed about the harbor of Rio the day before she put to sea.
This plain, through which runs the Rio Guayra, is at the elevation of four hundred and fourteen toises above the level of the sea.