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1. (n.) ghetto
a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of a minority group.
2. ghetto
(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
3. ghetto
an environment to which a group has been relegated, as because of bias, or in which a group has segregated itself for various reasons:
female job ghettos; a suburban ghetto for millionaires.
Etymology: (1605–15; < It, orig. the name of an island near Venice where Jews were forced to reside in the 16th cent. < Venetian, lit., foundry (giving the island its name), n. der. of ghettare to cast; see jet1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ghetto
formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
"the Warsaw ghetto"
2. (noun) ghetto
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
"the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3. (noun) ghetto
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Ghetto
the Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Ghetto
an Italian word applied to the quarters set apart in Italian cities for the Jews, and to which in former times they were restricted; the term is now applied to the Jews' quarters in any city.
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Sense: a (poor) part of a city etc in which a certain group of people (especially immigrants) lives
Large cities like New York have many ghettoes.
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 Afrikaans: ghetto |
 Arabic: جيتو |
 Bulgarian: гето |
 Brazilian: gueto |
 Czech: ghetto |
 German: das Ghetto |
 Danish: ghetto |
 Greek: γκέτο |
 Spanish: gueto |
 Estonian: geto |
 Farsi: محل سکونت اقلیت ها |
 Finnish: getto |
 French: ghetto |
 Hebrew: גטו |
 Hindi: अल्पसंख्यकों की अविकसित ज |
 Croatian: geto |
 Hungarian: gettó |
 Indonesian: permukiman golongan minor |
 Icelandic: (gyðinga)hverfi; fátækrah |
 Italian: ghetto |
 Japanese: 少数民族居住区 |
 Korean: 대도시의 소수 민족 거주지, 게토 |
 Lithuanian: getas |
 Latvian: geto; (pilsētas) graustu |
 Malay: kawasan perumahan sesak |
 Dutch: getto |
 Norwegian: getto |
 Polish: getto |
 Persian: محل سکونت اقلیت ها |
 Pashto: د اقليتو د اوسيدلو ځاى |
 Portuguese: bairro da lata |
 Romanian: ghetou |
 Russian: гетто |
 Slovak: geto |
 Slovenian: geto |
 Serbian: geto |
 Swedish: getto |
 Thai: สลัม |
 Turkish: mahalle, varoş |
 Taiwanese: 城市中(尤指移民住的)貧民區 |
 Ukrainian: гетто |
 Urdu: شہر کا پس ماندہ علاقہ |
 Vietnamese: khu nhà ổ chuột |
 Chinese: 城市中（尤指移民住的）的贫民区，少数民族聚居的地方 |
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