The ghetto in this town is dangerous at night.
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Ghetto
/ˈɡɛ.təʊ/
Synonyms for "ghetto" (57 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Noun(11 words)
ghetto formationghettoizationhellholehistoric quarterimpoverishedinformalinner-cityjewish quartermarginal zonemarginalizedmarginalized sector
Related words (28)
Noun(9 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
14 entriesareacity districtcolloquialismdescriptive adjectivedistrictlifeneighborhoodpejorative descriptorphenomenonprocessqualitative descriptorquarterurban areazone
More specific
17 entriesEuropean Jewish quarterOld Jewish quarterVenetian Ghettocultural ghettodigital ghettoeconomic ghettoeconomic ghettoizationghetto mentalityghetto slangghetto stereotypeinformal settlementinner-city areapoverty-stricken neighborhoodracial ghettoizationshantytownslum neighborhood
Showing 16 of 17 words.
Collocations
11 entriesVenetian Ghettoghetto aestheticsghetto areaghetto conditionsghetto districtghetto fabulousghetto neighborhoodghettoization processhistoric ghettoinner cityurban ghetto
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- гето noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Catalan
1 entries- gueto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 隔都 noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Danish
1 entries- ghetto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Dutch
2 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
- ghetto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Finnish
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Georgian
1 entries- გეტო noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
German
2 entries- Getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
- Ghetto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Greek
1 entries- γκέτο noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Hungarian
1 entries- gettó noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Italian
1 entries- ghetto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Lithuanian
1 entries- getas noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Polish
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Portuguese
1 entries- gueto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Romanian
1 entries- ghetou noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Russian
1 entries- ге́тто noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Spanish
4 entries- aljama noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
- barriada noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
- gueto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
- morería noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Swedish
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Turkish
1 entries- getto noun (area of a city where people of an ethnic group are concentrated)
Sample sentences
36 total sentences available.
The university is located a few blocks from the edge of the ghetto.
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She lives in the ghetto.
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He lives in the ghetto.
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Showing 4 of 36 available sentences.