ghetto
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
the Warsaw ghetto
Types & categories
- quarter hypernym
Related & opposite
- ghettoize derivation
Sense 2 noun
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
the relative security of the gay ghetto
Types & categories
- life hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
Types & categories
- city district hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghettoize |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | quarter |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | life |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | city district |