ghetto

• backyard
• barrio
• belt
• department
• district
• division
• enclave
• hood
• locality
• nabe
• neighborhood
• part
• place
• precinct
• quarter
• region
• section
• ward
• zone

• noun
  1. 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.).
  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. (sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
• verb
  1. To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
• adjective
  1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  2. Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
  3. 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.

• He grew up in a ghetto where opportunities were limited.
• The novel explores life in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.
• Activists are working to improve conditions in the urban ghetto.
• The museum exhibit focused on the history of the Jewish ghetto.
• She worked on social programs aimed at helping ghetto youth access education.

nabe

quarter

neighborhood

barrio

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