English Dictionary

ghetto

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡɛtəʊ/

名詞

軽蔑的 比喩的用法 時々

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)

日本語の意味

ゲットー：都市の一部で、特に中世イタリアやナチス占領下のヨーロッパにおいて、ユダヤ人が法律や強制措置により特定の区域に集められ、隔離された地域を指す。

During the occupation, the Nazis forced thousands of families into the ghetto behind the old city wall.

占領時、ナチスは何千もの家族を旧市街の城壁の内側にある（しばしば城壁で囲まれた）ユダヤ人居住区に押し込めた。

意味（1）

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)

The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.

意味（2）

An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.

Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.

意味（3）

An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto. The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.

意味（4）

(figuratively, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Abraham Merritt wrote for the pulps and never in his lifetime achieved critical success. Yet he had a devoted following in the science fiction ghetto who admired the clarity of his style and his power to evoke moods.

ghettos （ plural ）

ghettoes （ plural ）

ghetti （ plural ）