- a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social pressures or economic hardships.
- (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
- any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.
- pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there: ghetto culture.
- noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior.
- a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority
- an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live
- a group or class of people that is segregated in some way
