Definition & Meaning of "ghetto"in English

Ghetto

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

Culturally sensitive

Examples

Decades of discriminatory housing policies helped create the ghetto.

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

Culturally sensitive

Specialized

Grammatical Information

Animacy status

Inanimate

Composition

Simple

Countable

singular

not gender specific

Plural form

ghettos

Examples

The authorities confined thousands of Jewish residents within the ghetto.

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

Culturally sensitive

Figurative

Examples

Women were once confined to an administrative ghetto within the company.

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