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1.nounAn (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
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.noun(sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
5.verbTo confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
6.adjectiveOf or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
7.adjectiveUnseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
8.adjectiveCharacteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
9.adjectiveHaving been raised in a ghetto in the United States.