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ghetto

Best crossword clue

"Poor urban district"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɛ.təʊ/Part of speech nounSorted eghottStarts with GEnds with O1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • […] concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp […]
  • Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.
  • Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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