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Definitions for Ghetto

[1] 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 or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
[2] (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
[3] a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.
[4] any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment: job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.
[5] pertaining to or characteristic of life in a ghetto or the people who live there: ghetto culture.
[6] Slang : Often Disparaging and Offensive . noting something that is considered to be unrefined, low-class, cheap, or inferior: Her furniture is so ghetto!
[7] sociol a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority
[8] an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live
[9] a group or class of people that is segregated in some way

Words nearby Ghetto

ghent, gheorghiu, gheorghiu-dej, gherao, gherkin, ghetto, ghetto blaster, ghetto fabulous, ghetto-fabulous, ghettoize, ghettos

Origin of Ghetto

1605–15; < Italian, orig. the name of an island near Venice where Jews were forced to reside in the 16th century < Venetian, literally, foundry for artillery (giving the island its name), noun derivative of ghettare to throw < Vulgar Latin *jectāre; see jet1

Word origin for Ghetto

C17: from Italian, perhaps shortened from borghetto, diminutive of borgo settlement outside a walled city; or from the Venetian ghetto the medieval iron-founding district, largely inhabited by Jews

Synonyms for Ghetto

public squalor, rundown section of a city