Ghetto vs. Hood

Ghetto vs. Hood — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Ghetto and Hood

Ghettonoun

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.

Hoodnoun

A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

Ghettonoun

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

Hoodnoun

A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.

Ghettonoun

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

Hoodnoun

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

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Ghettonoun

An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Hoodnoun

(automotive) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

Ghettoadjective

Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

Hoodnoun

The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.

Ghettoadjective

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!

Hoodnoun

A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

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Ghettoadjective

Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

Hoodnoun

(slang) gangster, thug.

Ghettoadjective

Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Hoodnoun

(slang) neighborhood.

What’s goin’ down in the hood?

Ghettoverb

To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

Hoodnoun

(UK) person wearing a hoodie.

Ghettonoun

formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live;

the Warsaw ghetto

Hoodverb

To cover something with a hood.

Ghettonoun

any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping;

the relative security of the gay ghettono escape from the ghetto of the typing pool

Hoodadjective

Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Ghettonoun

a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

Hoodnoun

an aggressive and violent young criminal

Hoodnoun

metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes

Hoodnoun

the folding roof of a carriage

Hoodnoun

a headdress that protects the head and face

Hoodnoun

protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine;

there are powerful engines under the hoods of new carsthe mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine

Hoodverb

cover with a hood;

The bandits were hooded