Associations to the word «Samba»

Wiktionary

SAMBA, noun. A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
SAMBA, noun. A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
SAMBA, verb. To dance the samba.

Dictionary definition

SAMBA, noun. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood.
SAMBA, noun. Music composed for dancing the samba.
SAMBA, noun. A lively ballroom dance from Brazil.
SAMBA, noun. A form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers.
SAMBA, verb. Dance the samba.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca