ghetto

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A poor area of a city where people of one ethnic group or background live, often separated from the rest.

   Many immigrants once lived crowded together in the city's ghetto.

2. 2
   noun

   In the past, an area of a city where Jews were forced by law to live.

   The Venetian ghetto was established in the sixteenth century.

3. 3
   adj

   Cheap, low-quality, or crude (informal, often offensive).

   He fixed the broken handle with tape in a really ghetto way.

Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.

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