Meaning

4 senses
  1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

  2. (informal, slang)Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

    My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!

    I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!

  3. (US, derogatory, informal, offensive, often)Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

  4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Examples

28 sentences
  1. Tom grew up in the ghetto.

    Том виріс у гето. — deniko

    ruТом вырос в гетто. — marafon

    deTom ist im Ghetto aufgewachsen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. That ghetto should be burned down.

  3. Sami grew up in the ghetto.

  4. Slums develop as ghettos of poverty.

  5. Jonas is also from the ghetto.

Translations

3 languages

Origin

Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source languag

Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.

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Forms

more ghetto, most ghetto
Comparativemore ghetto Lesson
Superlativemost ghetto Lesson

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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