Crossword clues for ghetto
ghetto
- Historical Jewish quarter
- Run-down area
- City section
- Renewal target
- Location in an Elvis tune
- Urban area needing renewal
- Needy neighborhood
- Warsaw uprising site
- Subject of a Presley hit
- Racial enclave
- Neglected urban area
- Slummy area
- Segregated section
- Segregated area
- Rundown inner city area
- Racially segregated urban area
- Presley's "In the __"
- Poor area
- Needy urban area
- Minority area
- Inner city area
- Cheaply made, in slang
- Certain city area
- "In the __": Elvis hit
- "In the ___" (Elvis song)
- "In the ___" (Elvis Presley hit)
- "___ Love" (1997 Da Brat hit)
- "___ Gospel" (song by Tupac Shakur)
- -- blaster (boom box)
- ______ blaster
- Isolated area
- Area needing urban renewal
- Tough area
- ___ blaster
- Rundown area
- Depressed area
- Run-down urban area
- Urban renewal target
- Depressed urban area
- Poor, depressed neighborhood
- Area in need of urban renewal
- Area in a 1969 Elvis Presley hit
- Not the ritziest area of town
- Low-rent district
- Area of need
- The quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live
- Certain city quarter
- Urban area populated by a minority group
- Urban subsection
- "In the _____" (Presley hit)
- Slum area
- Area in many a city
- Urban enclave
- Got the shakes? Here's a quarter
- Summit avoided, wing enters warmer rising cloud
- Former Jewish quarter
- Hospital within reach in poor quarter
- Poor quarter
- Poor area to reach, going outside hotel
- Playing together with no hesitation in Jewish quarter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n. [It.] A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.
--Evelyn.
2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans.
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
1 Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 2 (context slang informal English) unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. n. 1 An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (qualifier: Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 2 An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity(,) or race. 3 An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. v
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
WordNet
n. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
[also: ghettoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
thumb|upright 1.5|The main square of the Venetian Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated.
"Ghetto" is the second single from American singer/songwriter Akon's debut studio album, Trouble. The single was released on December 21, 2004, exclusively in Latin America and certain countries of Europe. The single peaked at #92 on the Billboard Hot 100. Akon describes the song's lyrics as "a description of the cycle of poverty experienced by those living in poor, inner-city areas. Additionally, it describes the physical and psychological oppression with which these residents must deal on a regular basis. The video for the track was filmed in New Jersey, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona.
Ghetto refers to a portion of a municipality in which a particular ethnic or racial group lives, often in poor conditions.
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"Ghetto" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland, featuring vocals by rapper Snoop Dogg. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Lonny Bereal and Rowland, and produced by the former for Rowland's second solo album Ms. Kelly (2007). A mid-paced R&B ballad which was originally recorded for her shelved My Story album, "Ghetto" is influenced by the Crunk&B subgrene in the early to mid-2000s. Its instrumentation consists essentially of synthesizers and a drum machine rhythm and lyrically, finds Rowland, as the protagonist, singing sensually about becoming attracted to dangerous men.
One of Rowland's favorites on Ms. Kelly, "Ghetto" was released as the album's second single to US radios on August 7, 2007, while " Work" was serviced as the album's second international single. The song performed weakly on the Billboard charts, reaching number nine on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart only, ranking it among Rowland's lowest-selling single to date. An accompanying music video was directed by Andrew Gura and shot in Los Angeles, California in August 2007.
Ghetto is a play by Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol about the experiences of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto during Nazi occupation in World War II. The play focuses on the Jewish theatre in the ghetto, incorporating live music and including as characters historical figures such as Jacob Gens, the chief of the Jewish Police and later Head of the ghetto. It is part of a triptych of plays about the resistance movement, which also includes Adam and Underground. Ghetto premièred at the Haifa Municipal Theatre in Israel and the Freie Volksbühne, Berlin, in 1984, with folk and jazz singer, Esther Ofarim as Hayyah
It was performed in the Olivier Theatre at the Royal National Theatre, London, in an English-language version by David Lan, based on a translation by Miriam Schlesinger. This production opened on 27 April 1989. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner and designed by Bob Crowley. Alex Jennings played Kittel, Jonathan Cullen played Srulik, and Maria Friedman played Hayyah. It won the 1989 Evening Standard Award for Best Play. A production directed by Gedalia Besser opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York on 30 April 1989.
Usage examples of "ghetto".
Ghetto, hunger and exanthematic typhus did not particularly affect the Jewish populations.
The Third World does not really disappear in the process of unification of the world market but enters into the First, establishes itself at the heart as ghetto, shantytown, favela, always again produced and reproduced.
Gate, past Creekside and the remnants of the khepri ghetto, under the rails, to Smog Bend, into the innards of New Crobuzon.
Jewish BMSs and tough ghetto kids, running and yelling and breathing hard and worrying about chest pain meaning heart attack, throwing sharp elbows and playing dirty under the boards and getting into all-out screaming arguments with fifteen-year-olds about disputed calls, the elbows in fact thrown at Jo and the Fish and the Leggo and the deaths and diseases and wasted healthy moments spent cooped up in the House of God.
From this gate, running clear down the center of the ghetto to the south wall, was Mase Kalnu Iela, or Little Hill Street.
Haredim believe that since the beginning of the Diaspora two thousand years ago, the pinnacle of Jewish life and learning was that which was achieved by the great eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century yeshivas and rabbinic dynasties in the Jewish towns and ghettos of Eastern Europe, which were largely isolated from the Gentile world surrounding them.
Nipponese rapper would give anything for -- to perform my humble works before actual homeboys from the ghettos of L.
It was the Luftwaffe literally razing the Warsaw ghetto to the ground in three days and nights.
Aside from the steam tables, which came to life sometime in the morning and sometime toward sunset, the only rhythms the Rox knew were the sun and the tides and what people felt like cranking through their ghetto blasters.
Out in the street his father caught him and lifted him up and Ade began to cry unbearably as all the murky lights from the ghetto and the filthy untarred road and the broken-down houses and the ulcerous poverty converged on him.
Jim, on the run, goes to Plebtown, a high-tech underclass ghetto on Wolfbane, where he meets Cat, a girl about his own age.
While the assimilationist Jewish leaders naturally opposed the scheme as the first step towards total school segregation, Stricker welcomed the new ghetto schools.
To the Jew the great attraction of all of these Western movements was that they were quantitative, and thus all tended to break down the exclusiveness of the West, which had kept him out of its power struggles, and confined in his ghetto, dreaming of his revenge for centuries of persecution.
She looked quite handsome, and I did not at first recognize her without the ghastly pallor and schmattes she wore in the ghetto.
However, neither Swit nor the KB had any plans for large-scale resistance or escape from the ghettos.