ghetto

noun · adjective · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

ghettosghettoesghetti

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.
Đồng nghĩa: barrio, bad part of town, estate, favela, ghetto, Hell's Kitchen, jects, projects, scheme, shantytown, sink estate, slum
3.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
4.
(derogatory, figuratively, sometimes)(figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.
Đồng nghĩa: ivory tower

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more ghetto

Superlative

most ghetto

1.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
2.
(informal, slang)Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
3.
(US, derogatory, informal, offensive, often)(US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) 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.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

ghettoes

V_ing/Gerund

ghettoing

V_ed/pp

ghettoed

1.
(transitive)To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

barriobad part of townestate favelaHell's Kitchenjectsprojects scheme shantytownsink estateslumivory tower

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is. Compare ghetto.