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GHETTO
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Irregular inflected form: ghettoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):
city district (a district of a town or city)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
Example:
the Warsaw ghetto
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):
quarter (a district of a city having some distinguishing character)
Derivation:
ghettoize (put in a ghetto)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
Example:
no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ghetto" is a kind of...):
life (a characteristic state or mode of living)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb ghetto
