ghetto
noun
ghet¡âto
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plural ghettos
also ghettoes
Definition of ghetto
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2
: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
3a
: an isolated group
a geriatric ghetto
b
: a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity
the pink-collar ghetto
ghetto
verb
ghettoed;
ghettoing;
ghettos
Definition of ghetto (Entry 2 of 2)
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Examples of ghetto in a Sentence
Noun
He grew up in the ghetto.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
This Holocaust program included visits to places such as concentration camps, ghetto sites and Holocaust memorials. â Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, "Palm Beach County educators participate in European Holocaust program," 2 Aug. 2019 In a spontaneous act of remorse Brandt went on his knees to honour those killed by the Nazi regime in the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto. â Quartz Africa, "Even after acknowledging the Namibia genocide of WWI, Germany still hasnât learned the key lesson," 10 Aug. 2019 The photo shows Jewish residents in a Warsaw, Poland, ghetto before being transferred to concentration camps, according to the agent. â Mallory Simon, CNN, "Iowa man accused of threatening to slaughter 'filthy f**king Jews'," 25 July 2019 We had been told about my grandfather who had died in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. â Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, "Borenstein: President Trump, weâre already home â and weâre not leaving," 16 July 2019 As the Nazis, with help from Ukrainian nationalists, began to murder the local Jews in 1942, the Bernholzes fled their ghetto for the safety of a Polish farm family sheltering other Jews in a barn. â Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, "Ben Barenholtz, midnight-movie Innovator, dies at 83," 10 July 2019 For the first two weeks in the Tripoli ghetto, Osato and Osazuwa were allowed to stay together. â Abigail Haworth, Marie Claire, "The Lost Daughters of Salerno," 1 July 2019 Further restrictions in 2012 confined thousands to ghettos and displacement camps, a policy that Amnesty International likened to apartheid. â Gaia Vince, Quartz, "How to survive in the worldâs largest refugee camp," 8 June 2019 Jewish men and women alike had to wear a yellow item of clothing when outside the ghetto, to denote their difference. â Joan Nathan, New York Times, "A Seder Feast in Provence, With Roots in Ancient Rome," 20 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ghetto.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for ghetto
ghetto
noun
English Language Learners Definition of ghetto
: a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions
: the poorest part of a city
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ghetto
noun
ghet¡âto
| \ Ëge-tĹ
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\
plural ghettos
or ghettoes
Kids Definition of ghetto
: a part of a city in which members of a particular group live in poor conditions
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