The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Ms. Joselit vividly captures Kaplan’s fervor to fulfill his self-appointed life mission to prod American Jews forward from their 19th-century diaspora ghettoes into the freedoms of 20th-century America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
Its enduring value lay in the extent to which it made it difficult for writers to dismiss cities in reductive language, using terms such as slums, ghettoes and favelas.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2019
Trick Baby,”, which centers on a biracial pimp whose light skin allows him to move through both black ghettoes and white high society, is an adroit exposé of race and class in America.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2015
Over the past decade, as gay people have become more accepted and gay ghettoes have begun to empty out, I’ve noticed that the extremely muscled gay aesthetic has begun to fade away, especially among twenty-somethings.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012
I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
