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The correct spelling is ghetto.
How to pronounce ghetto
/ˈɡɛtəʊ/
nounIPA: /ˈɡɛtəʊ/
Say it like: Ghe-tto
The correct spelling is ghetto. An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
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Meanings
noun
- 1.An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
- 2.An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
- 3.An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
- 4.(sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
verb
- 1.To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
adjective
- 1.Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
- 2.Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
- 3.Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
- 4.Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
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