The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He defines “concentrationary” to include all circumstances in which there’s a punitive concentration of people, including in ghettoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Malcolm was convinced that the establishment of the time might tolerate black leaders as long as they stayed in the ghettoes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019
“Rather than looking at ghettoes with a white point of view, we give dignity back to the ghettoes,” he said.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2017
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
