Get to know Ghetto better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like quarter or life. In Dutch this translates to getto.
Ghetto in a sentence
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Ghetto meaning
- An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
- An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
- An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
Using Ghetto
- The main meaning on this page is: An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. | An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
- Useful related words include: quarter, life, city district.
- Possible Dutch translations are: getto, ghetto.
- In the example corpus, ghetto often appears in combinations such as: the ghetto, warsaw ghetto, ghetto and.
Context around Ghetto
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ghetto
- In this selection, "ghetto" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, warsaw, largest, das, project, looks and created stand out and add context to how "ghetto" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about watching ghetto gaggers a and and the ghetto. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ghetto" sits close to words such as abstraction, accomplice and ang, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ghetto
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ghetto Kids are proof of the power of dance to transform lives. (12 words)
In November 1940, the Germans established the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in Europe. (14 words)
All of a sudden you get the ghetto birds, and they're flying around. (14 words)
A literal time capsule of sound and content from early-‘00s rap, the duo’s sophomore effort was evidently recorded and indefinitely shelved shortly after the release of “Ghetto Pop Life,” making it an authentic throwback to that bygone era. (40 words)
Footage is shown in the 2010 documentary called " A Film Unfinished " which concerns the making of "Das Ghetto" and correlates scenes from 'Das Ghetto' with descriptions of the filming of these scenes that Czerniakow mentions in his diary. (38 words)
But you should all know this from common sense, and you should all be absolutely ashamed to see the center of our local government turning into a desolate, decaying ghetto of government buildings and human waste. (36 words)
You can take a person out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
In November 1940, the Germans established the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in Europe.
I’m from the ghetto, project bro… grew up with rules of the streets and the ghetto.
Of the city’s ghetto, which was set up in July 1942, Renia writes: “You probably want to know what a closed-off ghetto looks like.
The popularity of the term Gourmet Ghetto can be attributed to its playful irony and pleasant alliteration — the juxtaposition of the lowly ghetto with the uppity gourmet.
You can take a person out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the person!
In April 1943, young Jews took up arms against the Jewish ghetto’s liquidation but were crushed by German troops, which then raised the ghetto to the ground.
The ghetto there was established in April 1940 and became the second-largest ghetto created by the Nazis.
Due to the value of the goods that the ghetto population produced for the German military and various civilian contractors, it was the last major ghetto to be liquidated, in August 1944.
Footage is shown in the 2010 documentary called " A Film Unfinished " which concerns the making of "Das Ghetto" and correlates scenes from 'Das Ghetto' with descriptions of the filming of these scenes that Czerniakow mentions in his diary.
Ruins of Warsaw Ghetto, leveled by German forces, according to Adolf Hitler's order, after suppressing of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
The area south of Chłodna was known as the “Small Ghetto”, while the area north of this street was the “Large Ghetto”.
After delivering two compelling performances of his songs ‘Won’t Regret Minelle’ and ‘The Ghetto Cries’, Ti Blacks of the South Calypso Tent has been crowned the 2023 Calypso Monarch.
A literal time capsule of sound and content from early-‘00s rap, the duo’s sophomore effort was evidently recorded and indefinitely shelved shortly after the release of “Ghetto Pop Life,” making it an authentic throwback to that bygone era.
All of a sudden you get the ghetto birds, and they're flying around.
As the 1968 Kerner Commission put it: “What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget — is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto.
But you should all know this from common sense, and you should all be absolutely ashamed to see the center of our local government turning into a desolate, decaying ghetto of government buildings and human waste.
Chris, who has run Barneys Bikes for the last 31 years, said: "People like to make out that it's the ghetto but it's not what it's made out to be.
Ghetto Kids are proof of the power of dance to transform lives.
Ghetto life with its stench and overcrowdedness may make you feel nauseous as you look upon your own expansive space here in Dallas, Texas.
Healy caught flack earlier this month because he previously laughed about watching Ghetto Gaggers, a porn platform that demeans Black women.
Common combinations with ghetto
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ghetto 76×
- warsaw ghetto 26×
- ghetto and 13×
- ghetto in 12×
- ghetto of 10×
- jewish ghetto 9×
- ghetto was 9×
- ghetto uprising 8×
- gourmet ghetto 7×
- ghetto but 4×