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单词 ghetto
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ghetto

noun
/ˈɡetəʊ/
/ˈɡetəʊ/
(plural ghettos, ghettoes)
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  1. an area of a city where many people of the same race or background live, separately from the rest of the population. Ghettos are often crowded, with bad living conditions.
    • a poor kid growing up in the ghetto
    • The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto.
    • He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto.
    • They felt their beliefs made them outsiders, and had developed a ghetto mentality.
    • kids from the ghetto
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    • amenity
    • city
    • ghetto
    • high-rise
    • metropolitan
    • population
    • slum
    • suburb
    • town
    • urban
  2. the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past
    • the Warsaw ghetto
  3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
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