Buenos Aires
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- proper noun
- /ˈbweɪnoʊs ˈɛrɪs/
- After visiting Patagonia, we spent a week exploring the vibrant streets of Buenos Aires.
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Buenos Aires newspapers
- city of Buenos Aires
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Watch on YouTubeBut first we have a three hour flight to Buenos Aires.
- But first we have a three hour flight to Buenos Aires.
- You know, what are they doing at a young hacking conference in Buenos Aires?
- Went from a janitor to, you know, owning all the business, owning all the buildings in Buenos Aires that people used to hire him to clean.
- I go to Buenos Aires, I play in the Pan Am Championships, and my world opens up to a new world of possibilities.
- He says I had a million US in the bank in Argentina, Buenos Aires.
- They're from Akron, OH, they're from Oakland, CA, New York City, as well as Buenos Aires and Belgium and Botswana.
Examples
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Perhaps in Paris or Buenos Aires, such arguments would be idle, irrelevant exercises.
Academic text (1990) -
He landed in Buenos Aires yesterday.
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We were staying in this village outside of Buenos Aires.
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Today, she lives part of the year in New York and part in Buenos Aires.
Academic text (1994) -
I rented an apartment once in Buenos Aires.
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I remember the airport in Buenos Aires looked like it was from the 1950s.
Blog text (22) -
I was referred to this blog by a friend of mine in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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The extraordinary impact of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires during this period was due to several factors.
Academic text (1990) -
As a result of heavy rains, water began to flood Buenos Aires; the city halted public transport.
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I'd like to go to Buenos Aires or Rio or somewhere colorful and distracting.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Buenos + Aires
This is a conventionalized place name whose literal constituents ('buenos' = good, 'aires' = airs/winds) do not by themselves indicate 'the capital and largest city of Argentina.' Toponyms are lexicalized and language-specific, so even learners who know the literal words would not reliably infer the geopolitical meaning without prior knowledge.
Etymology
Buenos Aires comes from Spanish and literally combines buenos meaning 'good' and aires meaning 'air' or 'wind'. One popular story says sailors liked the fresh sea breezes and 'good winds' at this port, so they called the place Buenos Aires, and that image of 'good air' became the city's name today.