How to pronounce “ghetto”

Meaning

• [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.)
• 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.
• (figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
• [Adjective]
• Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
• (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
• (US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
• Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.

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