Number of syllables in the word 'ghetto'
Find out how many syllables are there in the word ghetto.
- No of syllables in ghetto : 2
- Divide syllables in ghetto : ghet-to
More about the word - ghetto
- noun
- Synonyms : ivory tower
- 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.)
- Definition : An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
- Definition : An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
- Definition : (sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
- verb
- Definition : To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
- adjective
- Definition : Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
- Definition : Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
- Definition : Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
- Definition : Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
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