Meaning Of The Word Ghetto

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ghetto
countable noun: A ghetto is a part of a city in which many poor people or many people of a particular race, religion, or nationality live separately from everyone else.

ghetto in American English
in certain European cities, a section to which Jews were formerly restricted
noun: a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships

ghetto in British English
noun: a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority

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