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Definition of ghetto:

  • (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
  • (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Sentence Examples:

I had seen the people of the abyss before, gone through its ghettos, and thought I knew it; but I found that I was now looking on it for the first time.

At sight of Roger he arose; and presently in a small back room, beneath the glare of a powerful lamp, the two were studying the ring which Roger had found in the ghetto that night.

As Bat did not care to remind the Senator that his own career from the ghetto up contradicted all this fine philosophy, he left the question unanswered.

It is the heart of the South End ghetto, for the greater part of its length; although its northern end belongs to the realm of Chinatown.

Into that class all their strength was thrown, and owing to their ghetto preparation, they rapidly took a leading place in it, politically and socially.

The bulk of them flocked to the financial and the distributive (as distinct from the productive) fields of industry to which they had been confined in the ghettos.

The gates of their own towns were closed against them, or else opened only to admit them into a despised "ghetto."

There can be no economic revival in ghettos when the most violent among us are allowed to roam free.

And this was another thing to remember about a ghetto: you were crowded not only in space but in time.

He rode down into the ghetto, feeling ashamed of his own bodily symmetry and genetic heritage, which seemed abnormal here.

The mutant ghetto seemed like a nightmare world, shifting in and out of reality almost at random, blurring into dream and then focusing sharply on hideous actuality.

One thing I know is that the ghetto was destroyed; I read it in a summary, an illustrated report which I think originated in the Ministry of Propaganda.

Malcolm X was able to appeal to ghetto residents in a way that Martin Luther King could not.

Malcolm, however, had started at the bottom, and ghetto residents could readily identify with him.

The fresh impetus that proceeded from the generous and liberal ideas encouraged by the Czar himself reached the ghetto.

This odd school prepared the child of the ghetto in very deed for the life and the struggle for existence awaiting him.

The prominent characters of the ghetto are drawn with fidelity, though the colors are sometimes laid on too thick.

It was only when the first Alexander came to the throne that the reforms planned by the government began to make an impression upon the distant ghetto.

The official Ghetto begins with the opening of the sixteenth century, whereas the best parodies belong to a much earlier date, the fourteenth century.