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Meaning of ghettos

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ghettos

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.