ghetto
贫民区,贫民窟,居民区,犹太区
Definitions
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plural ghet·tos, ghet·toes.
- : a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social pressures or economic hardships.
- : a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
- : any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.
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- : pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there: ghetto culture.
- : Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior: Her furniture is so ghetto!
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Examples
The San Francisco Chronicle documented a man in the Bay Area worrying that affordable housing might turn his area into a “ghetto.”
Relegated to low-class jobs and living in crowded ethnic ghettos, the Irish were portrayed as undesirable immigrants with less-than-average intelligence, who were prone to criminality.
Sophie, as a teen, was imprisoned in the Vilna ghetto from 1941 to 1943.
In 1975, FBI Deputy Associate Director James Adams testified before the Senate that the bureau had three times as many “ghetto informants” as confidential sources within the Klan — as good an index as any of the agency's priorities.
An equal pay for work of equal value clause insulates women from the wage inequity inherent in pink ghetto jobs, or jobs that are underpaid by virtue of being predominantly female.
Neither was there a return to the loyal but small ghetto of Charter 77.
Although, I think all those ghetto/goth kids are doing something with Melissa Burns; all the weirdo kids.
What about the ghetto residents who exhibit “mainstream” values on working, education, and child-rearing?
His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
Yet Three Crosses Square was something of a haven from the horrors of war and the nearby ghetto.
For, in truth, the exterior appearance and the entrance-chambers are the worst part of the Ghetto dwellings.
But the name of the Old Jewry reminds us of the ghetto which was an important part of old London.
To this roaming, hunting, exploring, adventurous breed what greater contrast is there than the denizens of the Ghetto?
Hence it has been suggested Judaicam became Italian Giudeica and thence became corrupted into ghetto.
They belong among the best Ghetto stories that have been written in New York, and they display undoubted talent.