ghetto
/ˈɡɛtoʊ/
noun
- A part of a city, often poor and crowded, where a particular group of people, especially a racial or ethnic minority, lives, often due to social or economic pressure.
- Many families were forced to live in the ghetto during that time.
- He wrote a book about growing up in a ghetto in the 1970s.
- The city is working to improve conditions in the historic ghetto.
- A situation or place where a particular group is isolated or kept apart from the rest of society.
- The company's policy created a ghetto for part-time workers.
- Some neighborhoods turn into ghettos for the elderly who cannot afford to move.
- The school had become a ghetto for students with learning disabilities.
Antonyms
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of a ghetto; often used informally to describe something as cheap, inferior, or makeshift.
- The apartment had a ghetto feel with its broken windows and peeling paint.
- They made a ghetto repair with duct tape and wire.
- That old car is so ghetto, but it still runs.