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ghetto
[ get-oh ]
noun
- a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social pressures or economic hardships.
- (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
- any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment:
job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.
adjective
- pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there:
ghetto culture.
- Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior.
ghetto
/ ˈɡɛtəʊ /
noun
- sociol a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority
- an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live
- a group or class of people that is segregated in some way
Word History and Origins
Origin of ghetto1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ghetto1
Example Sentences
Ivy says his scruffy beard and “menopause cardigan” make him look like a “ghetto Papa Smurf.”
In saluting them at the ceremony, Gordy declared that the group gave “Black kids from the ghetto a license to dream.”
Back then, I didn’t realize we were in the quote-unquote ghetto or in the hood or anything — I didn’t really know the difference.
She spoke sitting on a chair on the same railway platform where tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews were herded onto trains bound for the Theresienstadt ghetto.
Following that, Richardson was ridiculed with countless racist comments calling her “hood-rat,” “ghetto” and “low-life” – often aimed at how she decided to present herself with false eyelashes, bold wigs and long, decorated nails.
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