Carioca

English

Alternative forms

• carioca

Etymology

From Portuguese carioca.

Noun

Carioca (plural Cariocas)

1. An inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
   • 2008, Priscilla Goslin, How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio, →ISBN, page 43:

     Needless to say, a true Carioca never makes mistakes when dealing with money.

   • 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, →ISBN:

     I was impassioned about this because my Portuguese professor at Johns Hopkins was a Carioca, or native of Rio de Janeiro, and the first thing she told us in class was that she was going to make us all Cariocas.

   • 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, →ISBN:

     Cariocas – as inhabitants of Rio are called – panicked, and the newspapers reported the deteriorating situation in the city.

Proper noun

Carioca

1. The Carioca River, a river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.