Definitions from Wiktionary (ghetto)
▸ noun: An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
▸ noun: An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
▸ noun: An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
▸ noun: (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
▸ adjective: (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
▸ adjective: (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
▸ adjective: Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
▸ verb: (transitive) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
▸ Also see ghetto
jewish ghettos,
Nazi ghettos,
Jewish ghettos in Europe,
American ghettos,
The Ghettos Tryin to Kill Me!,
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▸ noun: An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
▸ noun: An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
▸ noun: An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
▸ noun: (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
▸ adjective: (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
▸ adjective: (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
▸ adjective: Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
▸ verb: (transitive) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
▸ Also see ghetto
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