noun

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An (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.)

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An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.

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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

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(sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Examples of ghettos in a Sentence

The walls of the ghettos had been cast down, but the Jews could find no entry into the comity of nations.

The result was riots in black ghettos in East Coast cities.

Social decay in Scotland tends instead to be concentrated in the white, mono-cultural, predominantly working-class ghettos of the peripheral housing estates.

The anti-social tendency of these councils expressed itself in the infliction of the badge, in the compulsory domicile of Jews within ghettos, and in the erection of formidable barriers against all intercourse between church and synagogue.

Some ghettos (as in Moravia) were actually not founded till the 18th century, but the careful observer can perceive clearly that at that period the ghetto was a doomed institution.

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