1) Area in an elvis tune 2) Area in many a city 3) Area in need of urban renewal 4) Area needing urban renewal 5) Area of need 6) Blighted area 7) Certain city quarter 8) Community of a sort 9) Depressed area 10) Depressed urban area 11) Enclave of poverty 12) Isolated area of a city 13) Jewish quarter
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1) Slum
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A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated. ==Etymology== Dictionaries list a number of possible origins for the originally Italian term, includ...
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[Akon song] `Ghetto` is the second single from American 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 #92 on the Billboard Hot 100. Akon describes the song`s lyrics as `a description of the cycle of povert...
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[play] Ghetto (גטו) is a play by Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol about the experiences of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto during Nazi occupation in World War II. The play focuses on the Jewish theatre in the ghetto, incorporating live music and including as characters historical figures such as Jacob Gens, the chief of the Jewish Police and...
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• (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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(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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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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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. ... 3. (fig) any isolated group of people. ... 4. (fi...
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Ghet'to noun [ Italian ] The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. « I went to the
Ghetto , where the Jews dwell.»
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Ghet'to noun A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
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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 Eastern Europe into which Jews were forced to live by...
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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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n] - the quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live
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A section of a city where Jews were forced to live, usually with several families living in one house, separated from the rest of the city by walls or wire fences, and used primarily as a station for gathering Jews for deportation to concentration camps.
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Fenced-off, densely populated areas in which Jews were forced to live in European cities. Many died in ghettos from hunger and disease.
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noun formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; `the Warsaw ghetto`
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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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a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships. · (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live. · a section predominantly ...
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