ghe

n. [ Hind. ghī clarified butter, Skr. gh&rsdot_;ta. ] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [ India ] Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogórek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyār, Per. khiyār. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Sea gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Guess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ] A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans. [ PJC ]

3. [ fig. ] Any isolated group of people. [ PJC ]

4. [ fig. ] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority. [ PJC ]

n. [ from their popularity with negro inner-city (ghetto) youth ] A portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver. It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.
Syn. -- boom box. [ WordNet 1.5 ]