ghettonoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡet.əʊ/us/ˈɡet̬.oʊ/plural ghettos or ghettoesan area of a city, especially a very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people:
As a child she lived in one of New York's poorest ghettos.
to live in ghetto conditions
in the past, an area of a city where Jews were made to live
a part of society or group that is in some way divided from the main part:
Brought up in what he describes as "a middle class ghetto", he imagined that all people were as privileged as he was.
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