Definitions for ghetto

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ghetto ghet·to

Spelling: [get-oh]

IPA: /ˈgɛt oʊ/

Ghetto is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in ghetto (eghott).

Definitions for ghetto

noun

1. a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
2. (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
3. a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.
4. any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment:

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there:
2. Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior:

Origin of ghetto

1605-15; Italian, orig. the name of an island near Venice where Jews were forced to reside in the 16th century Venetian, literally, foundry for artillery (giving the island its name), noun de

Examples for ghetto

What about the ghetto residents who exhibit “mainstream” values on working, education, and child-rearing?

He apologized, but his outburst touched off a blizzard of tweets proclaiming him a “thug” and “ghetto boy.”

Entered politics as the son of Pharaoh's daughter and the leader of the ghetto.

The Ostbahn workers became a channel to resistance units within the ghetto.

"There goes a lot of meals for the prisoners in the ghetto," Sim said and laughed.

Around 12:00 a.m., we are in Osteria Da Marino in the former Jewish ghetto district.

Why had his brethren ever sought to emerge from the joyous slavery of the ghetto?

For he was born in the ghetto of Venice, on the seventh story of an ancient house.

The five ghetto gates were thrown open, but Joseph did not come through any.

His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the ghetto.