different between ghetto vs asylum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ghetto, either from Venetian ghèto (“foundry”), or alternatively an apheresis of the Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups. The adjective and verb derive from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???to?/, [????o??]
• Rhymes: -?t??

Noun

ghetto (plural ghettos or ghettoes or ghetti)

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.)
   • 2009, Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city ?ISBN, page 25:

     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.

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2. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.
3. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
   • 2006, Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ?ISBN, page 201:

     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.

   • 2007, Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ?ISBN, page 190:

     The student ghetto, southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.

   • 2001, Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel ?ISBN, page 64:

     They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians, […]

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4. (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
   • 2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards

     Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.

Synonyms

• (often impoverished area of a city): see Thesaurus:slum
• (figurative): ivory tower (academic ghetto)

Derived terms

• ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster
• ghetto house
• ghettoise, ghettoize
• ghettotech

Translations

Adjective

ghetto (comparative more ghetto, superlative most ghetto)

1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
2. (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

   My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!

   I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
3. (US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Derived terms

• nonghetto

Translations

Verb

ghetto (third-person singular simple present ghettoes, present participle ghettoing, simple past and past participle ghettoed)

1. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ghetto.

Translations

Czech

Noun

ghetto n

1. ghetto (the district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves)

Declension

Dutch

Noun

ghetto n (plural ghetto's, diminutive ghettootje n)

1. Nonstandard spelling of getto.

Finnish

Noun

ghetto

1. Alternative spelling of getto

Declension

Anagrams

• ghetot

French

Etymology

From Italian ghetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.to/, /?e.to/

Noun

ghetto m (plural ghettos or ghetti)

1. ghetto

Derived terms

• ghettoïser

Italian

Etymology

From Venetian ghèto (“foundry”). Alternatively an apheresis of borghetto, diminutive of borgo (“village”). Initially used of the areas Jews were concentrated, later extended to concentrations of other ethnicities and then non-ethnic groups. The adjective and verb derive from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??et.to/
• Hyphenation: ghét?to

Noun

ghetto m (plural ghetti)

1. ghetto

Derived terms

• ghettizzare

Descendants

• ? English: ghetto
• ? French: ghetto

Further reading

• ghetto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

ghetto m (plural ghettos)

1. Alternative spelling of gueto

English

Etymology

From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sa?l?m/

Noun

asylum (plural asylums or asyla)

1. A place of safety.
2. The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
3. (dated) A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.

Synonyms

• sanctuary
• shelter

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• refugee

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ásulon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?sy?.lum/, [ä?s?y??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?si.lum/, [??s?i?lum]

Noun

as?lum n (genitive as?l?); second declension

1. asylum (place of refuge), sanctuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asylum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• asylum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• asylum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• asylum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin