GHETTO

Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of a city to which Jews were restricted and segregated.

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ghetto

Noun

  1. An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
  2. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
  3. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

Verb

  1. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  2. Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
    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!
  3. Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
  4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.


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