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  • 21Ghetto D — Infobox Album | Name = Ghetto D Type = Album Artist = Master P Released = September 2, 1997 Recorded = 1997 Genre = Gangsta rap, Hip hop Label = No Limit Records Producer = Beats By the Pound Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5… …

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  • 22ghetto — 1. noun a) The district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves. The Jews of Venice were confined to the ghèto, in what is now the Arsenale district b) A district where members of an ethnic, religious or cultural minority are… …

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  • 23ghetto — I. noun (plural ghettos; also ghettoes) Etymology: Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live, literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr to cast, from Latin jactare to throw more at jet Date: 1611 1.… …

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  • 24Ghetto — Getto; verarmtes Stadtviertel * * * Get|to [ gɛto], das; s, s, Ghetto: [von den übrigen Stadtvierteln abgetrenntes] Wohngebiet, in dem eine bestimmte Gruppe von diskriminierten Menschen wohnt: im Getto leben. Zus.: Ausländergetto, Judengetto.  … …

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  • 25ghetto — ghet|to [ˈgetəu US tou] n plural ghettos or ghettoes [Date: 1600 1700; : Italian; Origin: , perhaps from getto place where metals are melted and made into things ; because a 16th century ghetto in Venice was where such a place had once existed] 1 …

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  • 26ghetto — An inner urban area characterized by the spatial concentration of disadvantage. The term is often associated with particular ethnic groups for example black North Americans and was originally applied to the urbanized Jewish populations of Europe …

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  • 27ghetto — UK [ˈɡetəʊ] / US [ˈɡetoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms ghetto : singular ghetto plural ghettoes or ghettos 1) an area in a city or town where people of a particular type live, usually in poor conditions an inner city ghetto 2) a part of a European …

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  • 28ghetto — n. & v. n. (pl. os) 1 a part of a city, esp. a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. 2 hist. the Jewish quarter in a city. 3 a segregated group or area. v.tr. ( oes, oed) put or keep (people) in a ghetto. Phrases and idioms: ghetto… …

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  • 29ghetto — n. an inner city, urban ghetto * * * [ getəʊ] urban ghetto an inner city …

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  • 30ghetto — s m 1 Barrio en el que se obligaba a vivir a los judíos, por discriminación racial, en muchas ciudades europeas hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: el ghetto de Varsovia 2 Barrio en que se ven obligadas a vivir personas de la misma raza …

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