ghetto

B2
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɛtəʊ/
/ˈɡɛtoʊ/
Noun
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

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.)

2 Definition

An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.

3 Definition

An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

4 Definition

(sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Verb
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Adjective
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.

2 Definition

Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

3 Definition

Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.

4 Definition

Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.