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US
/ˈɡɛtoʊ/
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[ UK /ɡˈɛtəʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɛtəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
the Warsaw ghetto -
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
the relative security of the gay ghetto
no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool
How To Use ghetto In A Sentence
- To hear the politicians tell it, life in the ghetto was a whirl of passion, welfare checks, and liquor.
- no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool
- Today, tourism has moved out of its ghettoes, with fincas, farmhouses and stone cottages reimagined as hotels and villas.
- Is it troubling that Abba, Vitka, and Ruzka left members of their own families behind in ghettoes that would eventually be taken by the Nazis? The Avengers by Rich Cohen: Questions
- Hip hop is a music that has been evolved out of the ghettoes of inner cities, whether it's in Jamaica or the United States.
- My mother begged me to escape and hide till the selection of our area of the ghetto was over. Times, Sunday Times
- In The Victim, the Jewish son of an anti-gentile and ghetto-mentality storekeeper is being given a hard time by an insecure and alcoholic WASP. The Great Assimilator
- In a sexist, thoughtless, simple-minded story, he found yet a new way to ghettoize actresses in Hollywood.
- For the lovely Larghetto in II, Bilson gives each note its own character, even its own physiognomy.
- Where do you get the term ghettoize as you use it above? Ghettoized Continental Philosophy syllabus
