ghetto

ghetto

Quartier pauvre d’une ville où vit souvent un groupe social ou ethnique particulier.

En anglais simple : A poor part of a city, often home to a particular social or ethnic group.

• He grew up in a ghetto.
• The city invested in housing in the ghetto.
• Residents wanted better schools and jobs in their ghetto.

Synonymes : slum

Expressions courantes : urban ghetto, live in a ghetto, poor ghetto

ghetto

Quartier où la loi obligeait les Juifs à vivre, notamment sous le régime nazi.

En anglais simple : A city area where Jewish people were forced by law to live, especially under Nazi rule.

• They were forced into a ghetto.
• Walls separated the ghetto from the rest of the city.
• The museum tells the stories of families imprisoned in the ghetto.

Expressions courantes : Jewish ghetto, Warsaw ghetto, walled ghetto

élevé dans un ghetto

Qui a grandi dans un quartier pauvre d’une ville des États-Unis.

En anglais simple : Having grown up in a poor city area in the United States.

• He describes himself as a ghetto kid.
• Her ghetto upbringing shaped her view of the city.
• The novel follows a ghetto teenager through his first year at college.

Expressions courantes : ghetto kid, ghetto background, ghetto upbringing