vallenato

English

Etymology

From Spanish vallenato, from valle (“valley”) nato (“born”).

Noun

vallenato (countable and uncountable, plural vallenatos)

1. (music, uncountable) A popular style of folk music from Colombia.
2. (music, countable) A piece performed in this style.
   • 2007 July 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     100% COLOMBIANO (Tonight) This showcase of upbeat Colombian music includes exuberant salsa from Orquesta Guayacán and Son de Cali, with accordion-pumped vallenatos from the duos of Jorge Celedón-Jimmy Zambrano and Herbert Vargas-Silvestre Dangond, and vallenato-rooted rock from Fonseca.

Spanish

Adjective

vallenato (feminine vallenata, masculine plural vallenatos, feminine plural vallenatas)

1. (relational) vallenato

Noun

vallenato m (plural vallenatos)

1. (music) vallenato

Further reading

• “vallenato”, 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