What part of speech is ghetto?

Ghetto can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. ghetto is a verb, present, 1st person singular of ghetto (infinitive).
  • 2. ghetto is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. ghetto is a noun, singular of ghettos / ghettoes.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does ghetto mean?

Definitions

Adjective

ghetto - Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
ghetto - Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
ghetto - Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
ghetto - Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Verb

ghetto - To confine a specified group of people to a ghetto.

Noun

ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
ghetto - a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
ghetto - any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

Examples of ghetto

#   Sentence  
1. noun The Warsaw ghetto.
2. noun The relative security of the gay ghetto.
3. noun No escape from the ghetto of the typing pool.
4. noun The ghetto in this town is dangerous at night.
5. noun The university is located a few blocks from the edge of the ghetto.
6. noun She lives in the ghetto.
7. noun He lives in the ghetto.
8. noun Tom grew up in the ghetto.
9. noun It's a ghetto.
10. noun That ghetto should be burned down.
11. noun Burn down the ghetto.
12. noun The Gaza Strip is a ghetto.
13. noun Sami lives in a ghetto.
14. noun Sami grew up in the ghetto.
15. noun Esther's cousin survived the Holocaust by hiding in a storage room close to the Budapest ghetto.
Sentence  
noun
The Warsaw ghetto.
The relative security of the gay ghetto.
No escape from the ghetto of the typing pool.
The ghetto in this town is dangerous at night.
The university is located a few blocks from the edge of the ghetto.
She lives in the ghetto.
He lives in the ghetto.
Tom grew up in the ghetto.
It's a ghetto.
That ghetto should be burned down.
Burn down the ghetto.
The Gaza Strip is a ghetto.
Sami lives in a ghetto.
Sami grew up in the ghetto.
Esther's cousin survived the Holocaust by hiding in a storage room close to the Budapest ghetto.

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