ghet‧to /ˈɡetəʊ $ -toʊ/ noun (plural ghettos or ghettoes) [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Italian; Origin: perhaps from getto 'place where metals are melted and made into things'; because a 16th-century ghetto in Venice was where such a place had once existed]

1. a part of a city where people of a particular race or class, especially people who are poor, live separately from the rest of the people in the city. This word is sometimes considered offensive. ⇒ slum:
unemployment in the ghetto

2. a part of a city where Jews were forced to live in the past:
the Warsaw ghetto

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area a part of a town or country, or of the world:
They live in a very wealthy area.
coastal areas
region a large area of a country or the world:
the northwest region of Russia
desert regions
zone an area that is different from other areas around it in some way:
a war zone
a no-parking zone
We crossed two different time zonesareas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.
district one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens:
the Chelsea district of Manhattan
⇒ the business/financial/theatre etc district:
the financial district of London
neighbourhood British English
, neighborhood American English /ˈneɪbəhʊd $ -ər-/ an area of a town where people live:
a friendly neighbourhood
There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
suburb an area outside the centre of a city, where people live:
a suburb of Boston
quarter an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live:
the French quarter of New Orleans
slum an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live:
He grew up in the slums of East London.
ghetto an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live:
a black baby born in the ghetto

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