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Definition of bossa nova noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

bossa nova

noun

/ˌbɒsə ˈnəʊvə/

/ˌbɑːsə ˈnəʊvə/

[uncountable, countable]

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a style of Brazilian popular music, popular in the 1960sTopics Musicc2
Word Origin1960s: from Portuguese, from bossa ‘tendency’ and nova (feminine of novo) ‘new’.

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