"hyperghetto" meaning in English

See hyperghetto in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: hyperghettos [plural], hyperghettoes [plural]
Etymology: Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|hyper|ghetto}} hyper- + ghetto Head templates: {{en-noun|s|hyperghettoes}} hyperghetto (plural hyperghettos or hyperghettoes)
  1. (sociology) a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata Wikipedia link: Loïc Wacquant Categories (topical): Sociology

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hyperghetto meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hyper",
        "3": "ghetto"
      },
      "expansion": "hyper- + ghetto",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hyperghettos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hyperghettoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "hyperghettoes"
      },
      "expansion": "hyperghetto (plural hyperghettos or hyperghettoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with hyper-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sociology",
          "orig": "en:Sociology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata"
      ],
      "id": "en-hyperghetto-en-noun-tYqTlYJ9",
      "links": [
        [
          "sociology",
          "sociology"
        ],
        [
          "impoverished",
          "impoverished"
        ],
        [
          "anomic",
          "anomic"
        ],
        [
          "ghetto",
          "ghetto"
        ],
        [
          "inhabitant",
          "inhabitant"
        ],
        [
          "working-class",
          "working-class"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sociology) a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "social-science",
        "sociology"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Loïc Wacquant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hyperghetto"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hyper",
        "3": "ghetto"
      },
      "expansion": "hyper- + ghetto",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Loïc Wacquant. From hyper- + ghetto.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hyperghettos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hyperghettoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "hyperghettoes"
      },
      "expansion": "hyperghetto (plural hyperghettos or hyperghettoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with hyper-",
        "en:Sociology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sociology",
          "sociology"
        ],
        [
          "impoverished",
          "impoverished"
        ],
        [
          "anomic",
          "anomic"
        ],
        [
          "ghetto",
          "ghetto"
        ],
        [
          "inhabitant",
          "inhabitant"
        ],
        [
          "working-class",
          "working-class"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sociology) a severely impoverished and anomic ghetto whose inhabitants are mostly working-class people of a specific ethnic minority, without any significant presence of wealthier strata"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "social-science",
        "sociology"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Loïc Wacquant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hyperghetto"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.