Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n. [It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited
predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or
racial group, such segregation usually arising from social
or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to
areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income
African-Americans.
[PJC]
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
[PJC]
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an
implication of inferiority.
[PJC]
ghetto
n 1: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in
which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
2: any segregated mode of living or working that results from
bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay
ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a
minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship
and social restrictions
[also: ghettoes (pl)]
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "ghetto":
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary,
Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto,
blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core,
downtown, greenbelt, inner city, midtown, outskirts,
red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood,
shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburbia,
suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, uptown, urban blight
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