ghetto

Etymology
Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
 * 2) An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
 * 3) An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
 * 4)  An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 1) An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
 * 2)  An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1)  An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:slum
 * ivory tower

Translations

 * Arabic: غِيتُو, غِيتُو
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ге́та
 * Bulgarian: еврейски квартал
 * Catalan:, , jueria
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 猶太人居住區, 猶太區,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ghetto
 * Dutch: jodenbuurt,
 * Esperanto: geto
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გეტო
 * German:, , , Judengasse
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (यहूदी) बस्ती
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ゲットー
 * Korean: 게토
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: getto
 * Occitan: ghètto
 * Persian: گتو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гето
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ге́тто
 * Yiddish: געטאָ


 * Bulgarian: гето
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: ghetto
 * Dutch:, ghetto
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: გეტო
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: getas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: getto
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * Danish: ghetto
 * Khmer:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: getto
 * Polish:

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
 * 2)  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!
 * 1)  Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
 * 2) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1)  Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
 * 2) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1)  Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
 * 2) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
 * 1) Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Translations

 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: gettomsu, ,


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: نيئة, بيئة
 * Turkish: gettomsu


 * Turkish: gettolu

Verb

 * 1) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

Translations

 * German: gettoisieren

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  the district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves

Etymology
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Etymology
. Alternatively a, diminutive of. Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups.

Etymology
From.

Usage notes
Style guides recommend the variant spelling over ghetto.