GHETTO

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: ghettoes

Meaning:

A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):

city district (a district of a town or city)

Meaning:

Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live

Example:

the Warsaw ghetto

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):

quarter (a district of a city having some distinguishing character)

Derivation:

ghettoize (put in a ghetto)

Meaning:

Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping

Example:

no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):

life (a characteristic state or mode of living)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb ghetto