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.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ghetto and Ivory tower
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Ghetto as a noun:
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
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Ghetto as a noun:
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
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Ghetto as a noun:
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
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Ghetto as a noun (figurative, sometimes, _, pejorative):
An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
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Ghetto as an adjective:
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
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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!"
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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.
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Ghetto as an adjective:
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
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Ghetto as a verb:
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
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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."
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Ivory tower as an adjective:
Separated from reality and practical matters; overly academic.