| slovo | definícia |
ghetto
(mass) | ghetto
- geto |
ghetto
(encz) | ghetto,ghetto n: Zdeněk Brož |
ghetto
(czen) | ghetto,ghetton: Zdeněk Brož |
Ghetto
(gcide) | Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n. [It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited
predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or
racial group, such segregation usually arising from social
or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to
areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income
African-Americans.
[PJC]
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
[PJC]
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an
implication of inferiority.
[PJC] |
ghetto
(wn) | ghetto
n 1: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in
which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
2: 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"
3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority
ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social
restrictions |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
ghetto blaster
(encz) | ghetto blaster, n: |
ghettoes
(encz) | ghettoes,ghetta Jaroslav Šedivý |
ghettoise
(encz) | ghettoise, v: |
ghettoize
(encz) | ghettoize,ghettoizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
ghettos
(encz) | ghettos,ghetta n: Zdeněk Brož |
larghetto
(encz) | larghetto, n: |
ghettoizovat
(czen) | ghettoizovat,ghettoizev: Zdeněk Brož |
Ghetto
(gcide) | Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n. [It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited
predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or
racial group, such segregation usually arising from social
or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to
areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income
African-Americans.
[PJC]
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
[PJC]
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an
implication of inferiority.
[PJC] |
ghetto blaster
(gcide) | ghetto blaster \ghetto blaster\ n. [from their popularity with
negro inner-city (ghetto) youth]
A portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an
integrated radio receiver. It typically has two
(stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a
high sound intensity, from which the name comes.
Syn: boom box.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Ghettoize
(gcide) | Ghettoize \Ghet"to*ize\, v. t.
to form into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a
ghetto.
[PJC] |
Larghetto
(gcide) | Larghetto \Lar*ghet"to\, a. & adv. [It., dim. of largo largo.]
(Mus.)
Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and
rather more so than andante.
[1913 Webster] |
ghetto blaster
(wn) | ghetto blaster
n 1: a portable stereo [syn: ghetto blaster, boom box] |
ghettoise
(wn) | ghettoise
v 1: put in a ghetto; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were
ghettoized" [syn: ghettoize, ghettoise] |
ghettoize
(wn) | ghettoize
v 1: put in a ghetto; "The Jews in Eastern Europe were
ghettoized" [syn: ghettoize, ghettoise] |
larghetto
(wn) | larghetto
adj 1: (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo
n 1: (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo
slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio |
ghetto code
(foldoc) | ghetto code
A particularly inelegant and obviously
suboptimal section of code that still meets the original
requirements.
[{Dodgy Coder
(http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-exception.html)}].
(2014-05-14)
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