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Ghetto

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounAn (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
2.NounAn (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
3.NounAn area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
4.NounAn isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
5.AdjectiveOf or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
6.AdjectiveUnseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
"My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!; I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!"
7.AdjectiveCharacteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
8.AdjectiveHaving been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
9.VerbTo confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
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