ghetto
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.
Inflected forms:
form: ghettos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghettoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghetti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ghetto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ghetto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ghettoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ghettoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ghettoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ghettoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
pos: noun
examples: The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.
[…] concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp […]
Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.
gloss: An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
pos: noun
examples: Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.
By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto.
gloss: An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
pos: noun
examples: Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto. The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.
The student ghetto, southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.
They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians, […]
gloss: An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
sometimes
examples: Abraham Merritt wrote for the pulps and never in his lifetime achieved critical success. Yet he had a devoted following in the science fiction ghetto who admired the clarity of his style and his power to evoke moods.
Invent is undoubtedly the wrong word, but the push from government was crucial in getting the Internet out of its academic ghetto.
2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards
Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.
gloss: Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
pos: adj
examples: Those residing in ghetto communities were particularly ill equipped to adapt to the seismic changes taking place in the U.S. economy; they were left isolated and jobless.
gloss: Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
pos: adj
tags: informal
slang
examples: My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
I had not used very many minutes on my phone. Here we pay for our minutes prior to using them, and it gets expensive. I did not want her using up all my minutes. That was very ghetto and disrespectful.
In some kind of warped hometown loyalty, sometime during the conversation folks would stake their claim to owning the bottom. Philly is more ghetto than D.C. Or is it that DC. is more ghetto than Philly? Or Dallas (LA) is more ghetto than LA.
One guest did not pay. One of my checks remained open. They bolted and hit the service door. A walkout. Very ghetto.
It was like an awesome trip walking though the old house on Douglas, a lot had changed and my dad had it looking more ghetto than ever. He had a dog that he was watching while a buddy of his was in prison. It was a female Rottweiler
gloss: Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
informal
offensive
often
examples: The music I liked was very ghetto and gritty. It was the stuff that didn't really cross over much, but spoke to a roots black experience. People don't understand this now, but the falsetto, crying singers were the most ghetto back then.
You're the one that grew up in the suburbs and you act way more ghetto than I do.” “I am not ghetto.” Val said in an English accent and broke out laughing.
I beat up my kid's principal. Can you get any more ghetto than that?
He wasn't lying because, truth be told, I looked a lot like Halle Berry, only I was much thicker in all the right places and I was way more ghetto than Halle. And I had the tattoos and the attitude to match.
Oh yeah, we played the whole thing, I mean we was acting more ghetto than what we was. We was talking slangs and giving dabs every time we said so
Kesha rang us up, and instructed another girl in the back to add extra food to the bag. "Your girl is kinda ghetto ain't she?" I asked when we left the store. "No more ghetto than anyone else around here" he replied,
gloss: Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
pos: adj
gloss: To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.
Derived words: antighetto
cyberghetto
gay ghetto
ghetto bird
ghetto blaster
ghettoblaster
ghetto booty
ghetto butt
ghetto fabulous
ghetto-fabulous
ghetto fence
ghetto house
ghettoisation
ghettoise
ghettoish
ghettoism
ghettoize
ghettology
ghetto lottery
ghetto palm
ghetto pass
ghettotech
hyperghetto
student ghetto
boughetto
nonghetto
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гето
roman: geto
lang: Catalan
word: gueto
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 隔都
roman: gédōu
lang: Danish
word: ghetto
lang: Dutch
word: getto
lang: Dutch
word: ghetto
lang: Finnish
word: getto
lang: Georgian
word: გეტო
roman: geṭo
lang: German
word: Getto
lang: German
word: Ghetto
lang: Greek
word: γκέτο
roman: gkéto
lang: Hungarian
word: gettó
lang: Italian
word: ghetto
lang: Lithuanian
word: getas
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: getto
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: getto
lang: Polish
word: getto
lang: Portuguese
word: gueto
lang: Romanian
word: ghetou
lang: Russian
word: ге́тто
roman: gétto
lang: Spanish
word: gueto
lang: Spanish
word: aljama
lang: Spanish
word: morería
lang: Spanish
word: barriada
lang: Swedish
word: getto
lang: Turkish
word: getto