Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GHETTO

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Definitions of GHETTO

1. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
2. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
3. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
5. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
6. 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.)
7. (figurative, sometimespejorative) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
8. (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
9. (US, informal, often, disparaging or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

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Examples of Using GHETTO in a Sentence

• Much of the historic city was destroyed and its diverse population decimated by the Ghetto Uprising in 1943, the general Warsaw Uprising in 1944, and systematic razing.
• The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted the deportations.
• After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, where he worked in a garment factory.
• Judenräte were particularly common in Nazi ghettos in Eastern Europe where in some cases, such as the Łódź Ghetto, and in Theresienstadt, they were known as the "Jewish Council of Elders" (Jüdischer Ältestenrat or Ältestenrat der Juden).
• It is a rags to riches story chronicling the rise and fall of Sammy Glick, a Jewish boy born in New York's Lower East Side who, very early in his life, makes up his mind to escape the ghetto and climb the ladder of success by deception and betrayal.
• In 1999, four students at the local high school started the Life in a Jar project honoring Irena Sendler, a Polish humanitarian who rescued over 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
• The film is concerned chiefly with three topics: the Chełmno extermination camp, where mobile gas vans were first used by Germans to exterminate Jews; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau; and the Warsaw ghetto, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses and perpetrators.
• He has designed over 20 productions for the National Theatre including Ghetto, The Madness of George III, Carousel and The History Boys.
• According to his biographer, Robert Coram, Boyd was also known at different points of his career as "The Mad Major" for the intensity of his passions, as "Genghis John" for his confrontational style of interpersonal discussion, and as the "Ghetto Colonel" for his spartan lifestyle.
• The band is known for several hit songs in the 1970s (including "Spill the Wine", "The World Is a Ghetto", "The Cisco Kid", "Why Can't We Be Friends?", "Low Rider", and "Summer").
• Born in the "Judengasse", the ghetto of Frankfurt, Mayer developed a finance house and spread his empire by installing each of his five sons in the five main European financial centres to conduct business.
• He then parted ways with the former label in favor of its local competitor, Master P's No Limit Records, through which he released his second and third albums, Unpredictable (1997) and Ghetto Fabulous (1998), as well as Goodfellas (1999) as a member of its flagship group, 504 Boyz.
• Pope Paul IV (papacy 1555-9), having established the Roman Ghetto in the bull Cum nimis absurdum, made the arch the place of a yearly oath of submission, forcing Jewish elders to kiss the feet of each newly-crowned pope.
• The following year saw the release of the band's third album, 1992's Salutations from the Ghetto Nation, as Clarke's relationship with Geffen soured.
• I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang.
• The kibbutz was renamed in memorial to Mordechai Anielewicz, who was the first commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
• " Newsday called the album "international ghetto music filtered through hip-hop's strongest feminist sensibility.
• After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.
• After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising (the rebellion by the Polish resistance) the following year.
• Lucas Bishop appeared in the District X (2004–2005) series, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City, the Mutopia X (2005-2006) series, the Marauders (2019-2022) series, the X-Men Legends (2022–2023) series, and the Bishop: War College (2023) series, his fourth solo comic book series.
• The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, which was built by soldiers who had lived under the favela trees in Bahia and had nowhere to live following the Canudos War.
• During a seminar in composition, while a recording of Hovhaness's first symphony was being played, Aaron Copland talked loudly in Spanish to Latin-American composers in the room; and at the end of the recording Leonard Bernstein went to the piano, played a melodic minor scale and rebuked the work as "cheap ghetto music".
• The liquidation of the ghetto was conducted on September 11, 1942, by a squadron of German cavalry, the local police and the SD.
• DJs would mix multiple genres including jungle, ghetto house, hip hop, R&B, electro and Detroit techno.
• Ghetto house music artists include: DJ Deeon, Jammin' Gerald, DJ Funk, DJ Milton, DJ Slugo, Waxmaster, Traxman, Parris Mitchell.

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