Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n. [It.]
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. --Evelyn.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. By extension: Any section of a town inhabited
predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or
racial group, such segregation usually arising from social
or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to
areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income
African-Americans.
[PJC]
3. [fig.] Any isolated group of people.
[PJC]
4. [fig.] Any group isolated by external pressures, with an
implication of inferiority.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghetto
n 1: formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in
which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
2: any segregated mode of living or working that results from
bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay
ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority
ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social
restrictions
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