ghetto
/ˈɡɛ.toʊ/ noun B2- 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.)
- An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
- An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
- An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
Plural ghettos
Other matches
Learn ghetto in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.