The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“Writing a lullaby helped to preserve the maternal aura that had to be maintained in ghettoes and camps with large populations of women and children.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Almost every newspaper and TV station has an environment desk, but in most organisations they are neglected ghettoes outside the more prestigious political and economic teams.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
And he did so when ghettoes were in revolt and black Americans had become an object of worldwide fascination.
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
