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Meaning of ghetto

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

ghetto

Pronunciation:/ˈɡɛtəʊ//ˈɡɛtoʊ/

noun

Definitions

  1. 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. 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.

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

verb

Definitions

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

adjective

Definitions

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

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

  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.