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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
Lance Gross

Meaning of "R&B" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF R&B

R&B  [ˌɑːrənˈbiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF R&B

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
R&B is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES R&B MEAN IN ENGLISH?

R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B or RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. The term rhythm and blues has undergone a number of shifts in meaning; for example, in the early 1950s it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH R&B


bawbee
bɔːˈbiː
bribee
ˌbraɪˈbiː
bride-to-be
ˌbraɪdtəˈbiː
CRB
ˌsiːɑːˈbiː
d.o.b.
ˌdiːəʊˈbiː
FMB
ˌɛfɛmˈbiː
FRB
ˌɛfɑːˈbiː
jambee
dʒæmˈbiː
MBChB
ˌembiːsiːeɪtʃˈbiː
mother-to-be
ˈmʌðətəˈbiː
mothers-to-be
ˈmʌðəztəˈbiː
NLRB
ˌɛnɛlɑːˈbiː
OMB
ˌəʊɛmˈbiː
OTB
ˌəʊtiːˈbiː
renminbi
ˌrɛnˌmɪnˈbiː
unbe
ʌnˈbiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE R&B

R & A
R & B
R & D
R and R
r-colour
r-coloured
r-colouring
R-methodology
r.
r.a.m.
r.m.m.
R&D
R&R
R2I
Ra
ra-ra skirt
RAAF
rabanna
Rabat

Synonyms and antonyms of R&B in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «R&B» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF R&B

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The translations of R&B from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «R&B» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ř
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

R
570 millions of speakers

English

R&B
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

R
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

R
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

R
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

R -u0026 B এর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

R
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

R -u0026 B
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

R
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

R
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

R
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

R -u0026 B
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

R
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆர் -u0026 பி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आर आणि बी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

R -u0026 B
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

R
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

R
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

R
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

R
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

R
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

R
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

R
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

R
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of R&B

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «R&B»

The term «R&B» is very widely used and occupies the 238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «R&B» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about R&B

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10 QUOTES WITH «R&B»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word R&B.
1
Blake Anderson
See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.
2
Katy B
When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.
3
Gary Clark, Jr.
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
4
Mac DeMarco
I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
5
Drake
Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.
6
Michael Eric Dyson
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.
7
Lance Gross
I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
8
David Guetta
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
9
Ryan Guzman
I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.
10
Jeremih
I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «R&B»

Discover the use of R&B in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to R&B and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The R Book
Is supported by an accompanying website allowing examples from the text to be run by the user. Praise for the first edition: ‘…if you are an R user or wannabe R user, this text is the one that should be on your shelf.
Michael J. Crawley, 2012
2
The R Book
Is supported by an accompanying website allowing examples from the text to be run by the user. Praise for the first edition: ‘…if you are an R user or wannabe R user, this text is the one that should be on your shelf.
Michael J. Crawley, 2012
3
The R Book
The R Book is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in science, engineering and medicine. It is also ideal for students and professionals in statistics, economics, geography and the social sciences.
Michael J. Crawley, 2007
4
R Cookbook
With more than 200 practical recipes, this book helps you perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently.
Paul Teetor, 2011
5
R Graphics Cookbook
"Practical recipes for visualizing data"--Cover.
Winston Chang, 2013
6
Data Manipulation with R
Everyone using R needs to work with data, data almost always comes from an external source that has to be imported into R. The tasks covered in this book are essential tasks in R.
Phil Spector, 2008
7
Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R: analysis with R
Addresses the needs of researchers and students using R to analyze spatial data across a range of disciplines and professions.
Roger S. Bivand, Edzer J. Pebesma, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, 2008
8
R Graphics
Much of the information presented in this book cannot be found anywhere else. Well ahead of the curve, particularly regarding the grid system, R Graphics will have a major impact on the future direction of statistical graphics development.
Paul Murrell, 2005
9
Applied Econometrics with R
This book covers a variety of regression models, regression diagnostics and robustness issues, the nonlinear models of microeconomics, time series and time series econometrics.
Christian Kleiber, Achim Zeileis, 2008
10
R For Dummies
Requiring no prior programming experience and packed with practical examples, easy, step-by-step exercises, and sample code, this extremely accessible guide is the ideal introduction to R for complete beginners.
Joris Meys, Andrie de Vries, 2012

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