Definitions for favela
fəˈvɛl əfavela

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1. favelanoun

   A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil

2. Etymology: From favela.

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1. Favela

   Favela (Portuguese: [fɐˈvɛlɐ]) is an umbrella name for several types of working-class neighborhoods in Brazil. The term which means slum or ghetto was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War. Some of the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighborhoods). Over the years, many former enslaved Africans moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. Most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find places to live, many people found themselves in favelas. Census data released in December 2011 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in favelas and other slums. Favelas are located in 323 of the 5,565 Brazilian municipalities.

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1. Favela

   A favela is the term for a shanty town in Brazil, most often within urban areas. The first favelas appeared in the late 19th century and were built by soldiers who had nowhere to live. Some of the first settlements were called bairros africanos. This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many former black slaves moved in. Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Unable to find a place to live, many people ended up in a favela. Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE shows that in 2010, about 6 percent of the population lived in slums in Brazil. This means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people that lived in the country resided in areas of irregular occupation definable by lack of public services or urbanization, referred to by the IBGE as "subnormal agglomerations".

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1. FAVELA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Favela is ranked #4761 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Favela surname appeared 7,439 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Favela.
   
   96.5% or 7,182 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3% or 225 total occurrences were White.
   0.1% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.1% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
   0% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of favela in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of favela in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of favela in a Sentence

1. Pedro Artur:

   The main problem we have is unemployment because of prejudice, if you say you live in a favela, no one wants to give you a job. So we have to fight harder.

2. Alejandro Aravena:

   This is not, even for a second, a kind of romantic look at the favela as a kind of a pre-civilized, paradisic state of living, not at all. I mean, the favela is a disaster. But there are forces there that we should be able to channel through design.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Favela
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=favela
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html