Converse of object

• escape: I didn't want to escape the disability ghetto only to lock myself into a virtual ghetto.

• create: With taxpayers billions, New Labor is creating a new ghetto.

• become: Should the Western Balkans become a new ghetto inside Europe?

• have: Then the people in their areas wonder why they have a ghetto?

• leave: To start with, you almost never leave the ghetto itself - perhaps once a week to pray at the dazzling Imam Reza shrine.

Adjective modifier

• urban: These are no mean street kids, desperate for cash in an urban ghetto.

• ethnic: The people in the center of the ethnic ghetto normally live in the worse housing, and areas.

Modifies a noun

• blaster: Indeed, he can't resist slipping a CD of early mixes into a nearby ghetto blaster.

• blasters: At least 10 score pirates had answered our call, bringing with them beat boxes and ghetto blasters to form our sound system.

• uprising: The photographs range from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to the ghetto uprisings in 1968.

• mentality: We must discard our ghetto mentality and break down the barriers between them and us.

• kid: Recently I saw a documentary about some Hispanic ghetto kids in a school in Los Angeles.

• youth: Damian Marley: Welcome to Jamrock Jamaica: Ghetto Youths: GY1.

Noun used with modifier

• city: Like many other small towns in Iowa today, it resembles much more an inner city ghetto than a Norman Rockwell painting.

• poverty: Do such areas exhibit features of socially mobile neighborhoods or do they show signs of drifting toward poverty ghetto conditions?