ghetto
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ghetto, from Venetian ghèto (“foundry”). Alternatively an apheresis of the Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups. The adjective and verb derive from the noun.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtəʊ
Noun
ghetto (plural ghettos or ghettoes or ghetti)
- 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.)
- 2009, Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city →ISBN, page 25:
- 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.
- 2010, Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past, →ISBN, page 49:
- […] concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
- 2009, Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city →ISBN, page 25:
- An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
- 1998, Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders, →ISBN, page 15:
- Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.
- 1998, Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960, →ISBN, page 253:
- By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
- An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
- 2006, Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, →ISBN, page 201:
- 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.
- 2007, Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, →ISBN, page 190:
- 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.
- 2001, Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel →ISBN, page 64:
- 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, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
- 2006, Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, →ISBN, page 201:
- (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
- 1983, Eric S. Rabkin, Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 249:
- 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.
- 2012, Andrew Blum, Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, →ISBN:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
Synonyms
- (often impoverished area of a city): see Thesaurus:slum
- (figurative): ivory tower (academic ghetto)
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Adjective
ghetto (comparative more ghetto, superlative most ghetto)
- Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
- (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
- 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!
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- (US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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- Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
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Verb
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- To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
- 1964, James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow, page 274:
- This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
- 2001, Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, →ISBN, page 526:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
Translations
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Czech
Noun
ghetto n
- ghetto (the district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves)
Declension
Dutch
Noun
ghetto n (plural ghetto's, diminutive ghettootje n)
- (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of getto
Finnish
Noun
ghetto
- Alternative spelling of getto
Declension
Inflection of ghetto (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | ghetto | ghetot | |
genitive | gheton | ghettojen | |
partitive | ghettoa | ghettoja | |
illative | ghettoon | ghettoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ghetto | ghetot | |
accusative | nom. | ghetto | ghetot |
gen. | gheton | ||
genitive | gheton | ghettojen | |
partitive | ghettoa | ghettoja | |
inessive | ghetossa | ghetoissa | |
elative | ghetosta | ghetoista | |
illative | ghettoon | ghettoihin | |
adessive | ghetolla | ghetoilla | |
ablative | ghetolta | ghetoilta | |
allative | ghetolle | ghetoille | |
essive | ghettona | ghettoina | |
translative | ghetoksi | ghetoiksi | |
abessive | ghetotta | ghetoitta | |
instructive | — | ghetoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
ghetto m (plural ghettos or ghetti)
- A ghetto.
Further reading
- “ghetto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From Venetian ghèto (“foundry”). Alternatively an apheresis of borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups. The adjective and verb derive from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
ghetto m (plural ghetti)
- A ghetto.
Portuguese
Noun
ghetto m (plural ghettos)
- Alternative spelling of gueto
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