ghetto

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Noun ghetto has 3 senses

ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
--₁ is a kind of quarter

Derived form: verb ghettoize₁
ghetto - 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"
--₂ is a kind of life
ghetto - a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
--₃ is a kind of city district