ghetto
noun /ˈɡetəʊ/
/ˈɡetəʊ/
(plural ghettos, ghettoes)
- an area of a city where many people of the same race or background live, separately from the rest of the population. Ghettos are often crowded, with bad living conditions.
- a poor kid growing up in the ghetto
- The south coast of Spain has become something of a tourist ghetto.
- He tended to stick to the relative safety of San Francisco’s gay ghetto.
- They felt their beliefs made them outsiders, and had developed a ghetto mentality.
- kids from the ghetto
Wordfinder- amenity
- city
- ghetto
- high-rise
- metropolitan
- population
- slum
- suburb
- town
- urban
- the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past
- the Warsaw ghetto
Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.