ghetto

IPA: gˈɛtoʊ

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.)
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
(figurative, sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
(US, informal, often derogatory or offensive) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

Examples of "ghetto" in Sentences

The fastest growing industry in the ghetto is the oldest profession on Earth.
That the ghetto is about twelve times larger than the city, and a great deal livelier, so what?
A lot of the criticism I've read uses the term ghetto - sometimes more specifically "pink ghetto" - to describe the site.
Then Napoleon turned north again and marched toward Venice, where the word ghetto was first used, and allowed its Jews out.
I use the term ghetto to draw a comparison between the treatment of animated films and the treatment of African Americans in America.
Do you think that the skill set for teaching English to minority kids in the ghetto is the same as it is for teaching the same subject in a rich suburb?
The fastest growing industry in the ghetto is the oldest profession on Earth:::::: The gods tell these Oakland pimps chilldhood prostitution is OK - Learn from the lies they tell other groups!!!