The difference between Ghetto and Ivory tower

When used as nouns, ghetto means an (often walled) area of a city in which jews are concentrated by force and law, whereas ivory tower means a sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.

When used as adjectives, ghetto means of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general, whereas ivory tower means separated from reality and practical matters.


Ghetto is also verb with the meaning: to confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

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  1. Ghetto as a noun:

    An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.

  2. Ghetto as a noun:

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

  3. Ghetto as a noun:

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

  4. Ghetto as a noun (figurative, sometimes, _, pejorative):

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

  1. Ghetto as an adjective:

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

  2. Ghetto as an adjective (slang, informal):

    Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

    Examples:

    "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. Ghetto as an adjective (US, informal):

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

  4. Ghetto as an adjective:

    Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

  1. Ghetto as a verb:

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

  1. Ivory tower as a noun (idiomatic):

    A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.

    Examples:

    "Such a proposal looks fine from an ivory tower, but it could never work in real life."

  1. Ivory tower as an adjective:

    Separated from reality and practical matters; overly academic.

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