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ghetto is a noun meaning "formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live". It is pronounced /ˈɡɛtoʊ/ — GET-oh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
“the Warsaw ghetto”
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
“the relative security of the gay ghetto”
“no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool”
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ghetto come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.