ghetto
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈɡɛtoʊ/
:
gueto
- To achieve the objective pertaining to deploring violence in society, students need to view firsthand ghetto and slum areas.
- ghetto culture
- ghetto life
- become a ghetto
The bombs dropping in the ghetto, running, running.
- The bombs dropping in the ghetto, running, running.
- But again, for real had the vision for out the ghetto.
- And the third one was for Juliana to make a new life for herself outside the ghetto.
Examples
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Of course, I could not become like a ghetto dweller.
Academic text (2000) -
Tell me if there's room for Jesus in the ghetto.
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We didn't want to create a ghetto or separate entity.
Academic text (2003) -
As one pop culture pundit has so succinctly put it, "where the ghetto goes, the suburbs follow."
Academic text (1999) -
Mitchell Duneier's Ghetto carefully examines the history of this concept.
Academic text (2016) -
Many families in the city are confined to a ghetto where they face poverty and limited opportunities.
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Living in a ghetto can often lead to a sense of isolation from the larger community.
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The artist depicted life in the ghetto to highlight the struggles faced by marginalized groups.
Synonyms
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6.1
Authorities keep people apart by race or religion, often with different facilities
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghetto is also used to mean a social or work 'space' where a group is kept apart by unfair ideas or low expectations. A helpful way to remember this use is to think of the original segregated quarter in Venice: because it meant being set apart, ghetto can mean any situation that confines a group.