ghetto
80
5.6
- noun
- /ˈɡɛtoʊ/
:
barrio marginal
- A crowded house in a ghetto, no privacy, no room to breathe, welfare.
- an urban ghetto
- an inner-city ghetto
- a city ghetto
You've was brought up in a ghetto, the hood, the hood.
- You've was brought up in a ghetto, the hood, the hood.
- What wind up happening is it flooded the ghettos of America.
- Those kinds of things are crushed in the ghetto.
- So what she was doing, she remembered what we did in the ghetto in the trading clothes for food.
- And, you know, they are what people consider ghettos.
- That's their first question from the ghetto.
- There's a a line where you go from Hollywood people to the ghetto.
- There was dad out there concerned about youth in the ghetto, as of course inner city was known back then.
- You know, when I did the Warrior, I studied the ghetto in party hall.
- Where I'm from, Karachiliari, it's a ghetto rifing gang war.
Examples
-
Many families in the city live in the ghetto, struggling to make ends meet.
-
How is these kids meant to make it out of the ghetto now?
-
So if I say my purpose is to get a million kids in the ghetto reading books, I do a lot of stuff with reading.
-
Tell that to a kid from the ghetto, or a kid born to a single mom.
Blog text (5) -
For those reasons, she had serious discipline problems in a Chicago ghetto high school.
Academic text (1990) -
We want to be allowed to live where we obtain work and not being forced to living in our ghettos.
-
Like many young people, Ben soon learned tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto to find food for his family.
Academic text (2011) -
Does this make sense for children living in suburbia or deep in the ghettos of big cities?
Academic text (1993) -
In fact, precisely because culture and individual choices do matter, reforming the ghettos will be all the more difficult.
Academic text (1991) -
Most urban Indians live as transients, on welfare, in ghetto conditions, in the most destitute of circumstances.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
222
8.1
A local area where people know each other
97
3.2
The central part of a city where many poor people live and social problems happen
77
3.0
A poor part of a city with crowded, run-down houses and few services
6
7.0
An area of a city where very poor people live in small rough houses
2
2.7
A poor part of a city where many people live in small, crowded houses
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deprived
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghetto originally named a Jewish quarter, but English later used it for any poor, crowded urban area where a minority group lives, often because of social or economic pressure. So the idea of a place set apart helps explain why ghetto now means a poor, densely populated neighborhood.