[
US
/ˈsɑmbə/
]
[ UK /sˈæmbɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈæmbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
- 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
- a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
- music composed for dancing the samba
VERB
- dance the samba
How To Use samba In A Sentence
- Dances like the samba, rhumba, cha-cha, and mambo were the sexiest things that white people were allowed to do until the twist came along.
- I did some Coca-Cola ads for South America and they wanted a tango, samba and cha-cha-cha music, and all of the basic ideas came from CDs I'd worked on for WMN.
- Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
- Then he twirled, sambaed and sashayed across the cypress-planked floor. Mogo Rules
- Latin dance - mambo, cha-cha, rumba, samba, tango, and so on - are Afro-Euro forms defined by the coming together of black, brown, and white peoples in the Americas.
- She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others.
- It is often mixed with Spanish peppers to give a spicy product called sambal, which is consumed with rice. 5 Fish Processing and Preservation
- Many of today's performers have had more formal dance training than their predecessors, embellishing the old bump-and-grind with samba, tap, belly dancing, jazz, hula, even capoeira.
- Strangulated squeaks, beeps and atonal, dying samba rhythms scuttered into life. Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival
- The word'samba " means " to rub navels together.