noun (plural ghettos or ghettoes)
1 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.
2 the area of a town where Jews were forced to live in the past:
the Warsaw ghetto
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ghetto is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does ghetto appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ghetto appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
