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ghetto
has definitions from the fields of housing,geography
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[ noun ] (housing,geography) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
Examples "the Warsaw ghetto" Used in print (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)The terrible vision of the ghetto streets flooded his mind . Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto . The ghetto , a miniature of Warsaw 's , was emptied into the camp in the Majdan-Tartarski suburb called Majdanek . Down the boulevard he could see a portion of the ghetto wall . I came to Warsaw twice , but there was that damned ghetto wall '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
Examples "the relative security of the gay ghetto" "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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