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ghet·to
[get-oh] Pronunciation Key
[get-oh] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -tos, -toes.
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live. |
| 3. | a section predominantly inhabited by Jews. |
| 4. | any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly. |
[Origin: 1605–15; < It, orig. the name of an island near Venice where Jews were forced to reside in the 16th century < Venetian, lit., foundry for artillery (giving the island its name), n. deriv. of ghettare to throw < VL *jectāre; see jet1
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| ghet·to
(gět'ō) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
[Italian, after Ghetto, island near Venice where Jews were made to live in the 16th century.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ghetto
ghetto
1611, from It. ghetto "part of a city to which Jews are restricted," various theories of its origin include: Yiddish get "deed of separation;" special use of Venetian getto "foundry" (there was one near the site of that city's ghetto in 1516); Egitto "Egypt," from L. Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or It. borghetto "small section of a town" (dim. of borgo, of Gmc. origin, see borough). Extended 1892 to crowded urban quarters of other minority groups. Ghetto-blaster "large portable stereo" is from 1982.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| ghetto | |
noun | |
| 1. | formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto" |
| 2. | 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" |
| 3. | a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Ghetto
Ghet"to\, n. [It.] The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Ghetto
Ghet"to\, n. A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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