Ghetto vs. Hood
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.
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.
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 ghettoHoodverb
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 poolHoodadjective
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 engineHoodverb
cover with a hood;
The bandits were hooded
