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ALL meanings of ghetto

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  • noun ghetto Jewish 1
  • noun ghetto ethnic slum 1
  • noun ghetto neighbourhood 1
  • noun plural ghetto a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships. 1
  • noun plural ghetto (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live. 1
  • noun plural ghetto a section predominantly inhabited by Jews. 1
  • noun plural ghetto any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly. 1
  • adjective ghetto pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there: ghetto culture. 1
  • adjective ghetto Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior: Her furniture is so ghetto! 1
  • noun ghetto A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. 1
  • countable noun ghetto A ghetto is a part of a city in which many poor people or many people of a particular race, religion, or nationality live separately from everyone else. 0
  • noun ghetto a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority 0
  • noun ghetto an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live 0
  • noun ghetto a group or class of people that is segregated in some way 0
  • noun ghetto in certain European cities, a section to which Jews were formerly restricted 0
  • noun ghetto any section of a city in which many members of some minority group live, or to which they are restricted as by economic pressure or social discrimination 0
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