ghetto
(noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
ghetto
(noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; “the Warsaw ghetto”
ghetto
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ghetto (plural ghettos or ghettoes or ghetti)
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
(figurative, sometimes pejorative) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
• (often impoverished area of a city): see slum
• (figurative): ivory tower (academic ghetto)
ghetto (comparative more ghetto, superlative most ghetto)
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
ghetto (third-person singular simple present ghettoes, present participle ghettoing, simple past and past participle ghettoed)
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Source: Wiktionary
Ghet"to, n. Etym: [It.]
Definition: The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
