ghetto

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Synonyms: gretto, getto

Antonyms: gretto, getto

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Noun

1. An (often walled) area of a city in which [[Jew]]s are concentrated by [[force]] and [[law]]. {{q|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. {{lb|en|figurative|sometimes|derogatory}} An isolated, [[self-contained]], [[segregated]] subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
2. {{lb|en|slang|informal}} [[unseemly|Unseemly]] and [[indecorous]] or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
3. {{lb|en|US|informal|often|disparaging|or|offensive}} 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.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[confine]] (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

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