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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Ghetto (0.01573 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Ghetto.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ghetto
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ghetto
ghetto
n 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
[also:
ghettoes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ghetto
Ghetto
\Ghet"to\, n. [It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. The term is commonly applied to
areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income
African-Americans.
[PJC]
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
[PJC]
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an
implication of inferiority.
[PJC]
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