ghetto

Speech parts

1. ghetto - Noun

2. ghetto - Adjective

3. ghetto - Verb

Meaning

The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bowery hood area community region district location section precinct tenderloin coop hovel jewry sector block
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Antonyms

canton commonwealth county Gibraltar dominion duchy
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Hypernyms

life quarter city district

Phrases with the word

ghetto box gay ghetto ghetto butt ghetto tourism urban ghetto ghetto-isation

Derivatives

ghettoes

Examples

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. Anzia Yezierska

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Carter Woodson

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. Elie Wiesel

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. Klaus Kinski

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Rem Koolhaas

Our leaders know we're turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what's happened. Matt Taibbi

Close letter words and terms

ghersh ghess ghest ghetto bird ghetto blaster ghetto booty