ghettos

Cultural  

1. Originally, areas of medieval cities in which Jews (see also Jews) were compelled to live. Today the term usually refers to sections of American cities inhabited by the poor. (See inner city.)

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Example Sentences

His vast archive contains music composed in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow and elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Others were played to pass the time in Jewish ghettos.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

It is not clear exactly how many Jews survived the death camps, the ghettos or somewhere in hiding across Nazi-occupied Europe, but their numbers were a far cry from the pre-war Jewish population in Europe.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

The Jewish physician survivors were able to tell the histories of Jewish medical resistance in the ghettos and camps.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 9, 2023

Over the next few days, it spread to black ghettos in other parts of the country: Pretoria, Springs, Daveyton, Kwa-Thema, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane