Number of syllables in the word 'ghetto'

Find out how many syllables are there in the word ghetto.

  1. No of syllables in ghetto : 2
  2. Divide syllables in ghetto : ghet-to

More about the word - ghetto

  1. noun
  2. Synonyms : ivory tower
  3. Definition : An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
  4. Definition : An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
  5. Definition : An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
  6. Definition : (sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
  1. verb
  2. Definition : To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
  1. adjective
  2. Definition : Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  3. Definition : Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
  4. Definition : Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
  5. Definition : Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

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