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Type Words
Type of life


the relative security of the gay ghetto.
no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool.
Type Words
Type of city district
Type Words
Type of quarter
Derivation ghettoize


the Warsaw ghetto.

Examples of ghetto

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This is the Internet ghetto and there's limited wifi in the lobby and that's it.
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Some of the letters of support were sent from the black ghetto where Tracz died.
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For the city cop on the ghetto beat, constant tension has long been commonplace.
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The problem, like many others, is most severe in ghetto areas of central cities.
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A ghetto boy discovers his landlords are weirdos hiding something in the cellar.
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The Street Academy is located in a cleaned-up row house in the Baltimore ghetto.
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The Nazis entered the ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday.
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So how is it that black people supposedly turned the neighborhood into a ghetto.
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We'll see if they have a business model that breaks out of the Geocities ghetto.
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  • Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
  • Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
  • A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
  • Ghetto was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. A ghetto is now described as an overcrowded urban area often associated with a specific ethnic or racial population; especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
  • "Ghetto" is a single by Akon. Released in late 2004 and officially in early 2005, it reached No. 90 on the Billboard Hot 100, and is a cut off Akon's debut album Trouble. ...
  • "Ghetto" is a R&B song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Joseph "Lonny" Bereal and Rowland, and produced by Tank for her second studio album Ms. Kelly (2007), featuring guest vocals by rapper Snoop Dogg.
  • Ghetto (Hebrew: u05D2u05D8u05D5u200Eu200E) is a play by Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol about the experiences of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto during Nazi occupation in World War II. The play focuses on the Jewish theatre in the ghetto, incorporating live music and including as characters historical figures such as Jacob Gens, the chief of the Jewish Police and later Head of the ghetto...
  • Justin Reginald Clarke Samuel (born 9 October 1984), better known by his stage name Ghetts (formerly Ghetto) is a grime artist from Plaistow, Newham, east London of African-Caribbean (Jamaican/Grenadian) descent. ...
  • "The Ghetto" is a socially conscious, mostly instrumental funk/soul anthem, released as the first single off American soul singer Donny Hathaway's debut album, Everything Is Everything, released as a single in 1970 on Atlantic Records.