How to pronounce“ghetto”in English
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Definitions of “ghetto”
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.)
“The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.”
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
“Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.”
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
“Those residing in ghetto communities were particularly ill equipped to adapt to the seismic changes taking place in the U.S. economy; they were left isolated and jobless.”
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
“My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!”