Look up: Ghetto

1. ghetto
   [n] - the quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live
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2. Ghetto
   Ghet'to noun [ Italian ] The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. « I went to the Ghetto , where the Jews dwell.» Evelyn.
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3. Ghetto
   Ghet'to noun A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
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4. ghetto
   1. The Jews' quarter in an Italian town or city. 'I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.' (Evelyn) ... 2. By extension, any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. ......
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5. ghetto
   noun formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; `the Warsaw ghetto`
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6. Ghetto
   • (n.) The Jews`quarter in an Italian town or city. • (n.) A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
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7. Ghetto
   (from the article `Venice`) ...with life centred on the square, or campo (site of the community well), and its parish church. Perhaps the most clearly recognizable such area ...
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8. ghetto
   formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for Jews. One of the earliest forced segregations of Jews ... [3 related articles]
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9. ghetto
   ghetto (get'ō) , originally, a section of a city in which Jews lived; it has come to mean a section of a city where members of any racial group are segregated. In the early Middle Ages the segregation of Jews in separate streets or localities was voluntary. The first compulsory ghettos wer...
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10. Ghetto
    A ghetto was a part of a city in which Jews were compelled to live, shut off from the rest of the city and forced to pay a tax for the dubious privilege of living there.
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11. ghetto
    Any deprived area occupied by a minority group, whether voluntarily or not. Originally a ghetto was the area of a town where Jews were compelled to live, decreed by a law enforced by papal bull 1555. The term came into use 1516 when the Jews of Venice were expelled to an island within the city which ...
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12. ghetto
    A part of a city occupied by a minority group. This is mostly used to refer to the Jewish quarter of a city. It originates in Venice in the 16th century where it denoted a walled area to which Jews were confined outside daylight hours. During World War II it was used again for areas in cities of Eas...
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13. Ghetto
    A `ghetto` is a section of a city occupied by a group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure. The term ghetto was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. A ghetto is now described as an overcrowded urban area often associate...
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14. Ghetto
    (Akon song) "`Ghetto`" is the second single from Senegalese singer/songwriter Akon`s debut studio album, Trouble. The single was released on December 21, 2004, exclusively in Latin America and certain countries of Europe. The single peaked at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ako...
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15. Ghetto
    (Kelly Rowland song) "`Ghetto`" is a R&B song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Joseph "Lonny" Bereal and Rowland, and produced by Tank for her second studio album Ms. Kelly (2007), featuring gues...
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