ghetto

nounslum

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Word Origin & History

1610s, "part of a city to which Jews were restricted," especially in Italy, from Italian 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); a clipped word from Egitto "Egypt," from Latin Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or Italian borghetto "small section of a town" (diminutive of borgo, of Germanic origin, see borough). Extended by 1899 to crowded urban quarters of other minority groups (especially blacks in U.S. cities). As an adjective by 1903 (modern slang usage from 1999). Ghetto-blaster "large, portable stereo" is from 1982.

Example Sentences for ghetto

Entered politics as the son of Pharaoh's daughter and the leader of the Ghetto.

"There goes a lot of meals for the prisoners in the ghetto," Sim said and laughed.

The five Ghetto gates were thrown open, but Joseph did not come through any.

For he was born in the Ghetto of Venice, on the seventh story of an ancient house.

Why had his brethren ever sought to emerge from the joyous slavery of the Ghetto?

He was back in the days when Fifth Avenue was an avenue and not a ghetto.

Long experience had taught the Ghetto that no gambler could be trusted.

In the opinion of the Ghetto they were the most extraordinary children in the world.

He, too, in a subterranean, ghetto way was master over his rats.

The master in the art of telling these Ghetto tales is Leopold Kompert.

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