ghetto
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- noun
- /ˈɡɛtoʊ/
- Archaic
:
gueto
- The people of the ghetto were prepared to face any death except death by starvation.
- Warsaw ghetto
- Jewish ghetto
- Kovno ghetto
And they said that they might equate it to a Jewish ghetto, but not a concentration camp.
- And they said that they might equate it to a Jewish ghetto, but not a concentration camp.
- And I hardly paid any mind to this walled ghetto, even though I passed it almost every day.
- They were in the Warsaw Ghetto, both of them, though they didn't know each other.
- I I think that I've heard that it has some aspects to it that are like the Jewish ghetto.
Examples
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Families living in the Warsaw Ghetto quickly became starving and sick.
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In Warsaw, deportations began from the ghetto to the camps.
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To identify themselves, those working outside the ghetto had to wear a yellow hat.
Fiction book (1999) -
We're allowed to take food into the ghetto.
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Pack us in a cattle car and take us down to the ghetto.
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This is a Warsaw ghetto.
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Ben stayed for two days, sneaking in and out of the ghetto to steal food for his family.
Academic text (2011) -
My mother and grandmother were moved into the Budapest ghetto.
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They were in the Warsaw Ghetto, both of them, though they didn't know each other.
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During World War II, many families were forced to live in the ghetto where conditions were dire.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghetto gets its name from a part of Venice where Jews were forced to live in the 1500s. The place may have been named from an old Italian word for a 'foundry' or metal shop, and because it was a separate area the word came to mean a Jewish quarter.