ghetto

Definition of ghetto in English English dictionary: An economically depressed urban district predominantly inhabited by members of one ethnic or religious group
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville are often cited as African-American ghettos in New York City.; A district where members of an ethnic, religious or cultural minority are congregated, usually voluntarily
The term Chinatown denotes a Chinese Ghetto.; of low quality; cheap; shabby
I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!.; The district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves
The Jews of Venice were confined to the ghèto, in what is now the Arsenale district.; of or related to a ghetto or to ghettos in general; {i} highly populated area of a city inhabited mainly by people of the same ethnic or minority group; formerly a section within a city in which Jews were forced to live (especially during World War II); Originally, the section of a European city to which Jews were restricted Today, commonly defined as a section of a city occupied by members of a minority group who live there because of social restrictions on their residential choice; minority group who live there because of social restrictions on their residential choice Originally, the section of a European city to which Jews were restricted; A ghetto is a part of a city in which many poor people or many people of a particular race, religion, or nationality live separately from everyone else. the black ghettos of New York and Los Angeles. Formerly, a street or quarter of a city set apart as a legally enforced residential area for Jews. Forced segregation of Jews spread throughout Europe in the 14th-15th centuries. Ghettos were customarily enclosed with walls and gates and kept locked at night and during Christian festivals. Since outward expansion was usually impossible, most ghettos grew upward; congestion, fire hazards, and unsanitary conditions often resulted. Ghettos were abolished in western Europe in the 19th century; those revived by the Nazi Party (see Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) were overcrowded holding places preliminary to extermination. More recently, the term ghetto has been applied to impoverished urban areas exclusively settled by a minority group or groups and perpetuated by economic and social pressures rather than legal and physical measures; 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; The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city; A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers; a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"; A section of a city where the Nazis forced all Jews to live A ghetto was often sealed off with walls, barbed wire and armed guards, preventing people from entering or leaving; an area of a city that is often rundown; A district where members of one ethnic, religious, or cultural group are congregated, usually voluntarily; a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions; an isolated and deprived part of a town or city Jews were moved into ghettos in Poland during WWII; A portion of a city in which Jews were required to live separately from the general populace; formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
ghetto bird: A police helicopter used in bad areas of America
ghetto blaster: A portable stereo system capable of playing music (from several sources) at a relatively high volume; a boom box
ghetto blasters: plural form of ghetto blaster
ghetto fabulous: Authentic, keeping it real."Ghetto fabulous" in Geneva Smitherman, Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner, Houghton Mifflin Books (2000), ISBN 0395969190, page 145: "Describes a person or thing that is authentic, the height of something, according to the authentic, natural, ‘keepin-it-real’ standards of Blackness that are believed to exist in ghetto communities. Also ghetto fab."
ghetto fabulous: Wealthy, but of ghetto roots and ethic
ghetto fence: A barrier intended to keep one group (usually against their will) separate from another
ghetto house: a class of house music from Chicago
ghetto-fabulous: Alternative form of ghetto fabulous
ghetto blaster: portable stereo contained in one unit, boom box (Slang)
ghetto blaster: a portable stereo
ghetto blaster: A ghetto blaster is a large portable radio and cassette player with built-in speakers, especially one that is played loudly in public by young people. A boom box. a large radio and tape recorder that can be carried around, and is often played very loudly in public places. This word is sometimes considered offensive in American English American Equivalent: boom box
ghetto box: portable stereo contained in one unit, boom box (Slang)
ghetto mentality: mind-set of a person who comes from a ghetto
student ghetto: A residential area, for instance in a college town, that predominantly consists of rental housing for post-secondary students
Lodz Ghetto: ghetto established by the Nazis to house Jews before deporting them to the Chelmno death camp (during World War II)
Warsaw Ghetto: ghetto established by the Nazis in order to house Jews before their deportation to death camps (during World War II)
Warsaw Ghetto: an area in the city of Warsaw in which almost half a million Jews were forced by the Nazis to live together during World War II, before they were taken to concentration camps, where most of them died
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: (April 19-May 16, 1943) Revolt by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation against deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. By July 1942 the Nazis had herded 500,000 Jews from surrounding areas into the ghetto in Warsaw. Though starvation killed thousands each month, the Nazis began transferring more than 5,000 Jews a day to rural "labour camps." When word reached the ghetto in early 1943 that the destination was actually the gas chambers at Treblinka, the newly formed Jewish Fighting Organization (OB) attacked the Nazis, killing 50 in four days of street fighting and causing the deportations to halt. On April 19 Heinrich Himmler sent 2,000 SS men and army troops to clear the ghetto of its remaining Jews. For four weeks the OB and guerrillas fought with pistols and homemade bombs, destroying tanks and killing several hundred Nazis, until their ammunition ran out. Not until May 8 did the Nazis manage to take the OB headquarters bunker. Many of the surviving OB fighters took their own lives to avoid being captured. The battle raged until May 16, when the SS chief declared "The Warsaw Ghetto is no more." During the 28 days of the uprising, more than 40,000 Jews were either killed or deported
ghettoes: plural of ghetto
ghettos: plural of ghetto
the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto: Jewish anti-Nazi rebellion in the Polish ghetto of Warsaw in 1943