Synonyms for ghettos

Grammar : Noun

Spell : get-oh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɛt oʊ

Définition of ghettos

Origin : 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.

noun slum

Example sentences :

Their spirits were liberated and in thought they no longer lived in ghettos.
Extract from : « The Jewish State » by Theodor Herzl

This was the first ray that penetrated the Ghettos from without.
Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener

His boxing, and his experience in the slums and ghettos of the world, had taught him restraint.
Extract from : « The Night-Born » by Jack London

Nearly a million of these people are crowded into the New York ghettos.
Extract from : « Our Foreigners » by Samuel P. Orth

Down almost to our own time the Ghettos have existed in Europe, and popular tumults against them continue to occur.
Extract from : « Old-Time Makers of Medicine » by James J. Walsh

With similar ends in view the printing-press sent into the Ghettos a large number of instructive works in Hebrew and German.
Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz

Thereat arose a new and stranger commotion throughout all the Ghettos, Jewries, and Mellahs.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

They were to remain shut up in Ghettos, and were to possess only one synagogue; the rest were to be destroyed.
Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI) » by Heinrich Graetz

There can be no economic revival in ghettos when the most violent among us are allowed to roam free.
Extract from : « Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006 » by Various

I suppose if our dear Mr. Zangwill had his own way he would fill the world with Ghettos.
Extract from : « Discourses of Keidansky » by Bernard G. Richards

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