noun. A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.

noun. An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.

noun. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto.

adjective. In a manner typical or stereotypical of an impoverished urban area, as in being makeshift, garish, or crass.

noun. The quarter in certain Italian towns in which Jews were formerly compelled to live exclusively.

noun. A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.

noun. Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans.

noun. Any isolated group of people.

noun. Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.

noun. 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.)

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

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

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

adjective. Of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.

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

adjective. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

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

noun. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live

noun. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

noun. any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping

"Then Napoleon turned north again and marched toward Venice, where the word ghetto was first used, and allowed its Jews out."

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