ghetto

Universal Words 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