chacarera

English

Etymology

From Spanish chacarera.

Noun

chacarera (countable and uncountable, plural chacareras)

1. (uncountable) A genre of Argentinian and Bolivian folk music, a dance form played by contemporary musicians as soloists or in small ensembles of voice, guitar, violin and bombo drum.
   • 2007 February 17, Nate Chinen, “A Wide World of Sound With an Argentine Beat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Along the way, he has built some fascinating bridges between jazz, pop, classical music and the chacareras and tangos of his native Argentina.

2. (countable) A dance accompanying this music.

Spanish

Noun

chacarera f (plural chacareras)

1. chacarera

Further reading

• “chacarero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10