ghetto
US: /ˈɡɛtoʊ/
UK: /ɡˈɛtəʊ/
UK: /ɡˈɛtəʊ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
ghetto /'getou/
- danh từ, số nhiều ghettos
- (sử học) khu người Do thái (ở trong một thành phố)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) khu người da đen (ở trong một thành phố)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural ghettos or ghettoes)
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.
2 the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past: the Warsaw ghetto