Definition of ghetto Ghetto

/gɛˈtow/ - [getow] - ghet•to

We found 15 definitions of ghetto from 6 different sources.

What does ghetto mean?

Noun Plural: ghettoes
ghetto - formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
		quarter clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
ghetto - a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
ghetto - 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"

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ghetto (Noun)
An often walled area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
ghetto (Noun)
An often impoverished area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
ghetto (Noun)
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
ghetto (Verb)
To confine a specified group of people to a ghetto.
ghetto (Adjective)
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
ghetto (Adjective)
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
ghetto (Adjective)
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
ghetto (Adjective)
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.

ghetto
get′ō, n. the Jews' quarter in Italian cities, to which they used to be strictly confined. [It.]

'Ghetto' derive from "getto", the Italian term for casting. Originally the word "ghetto" meant the Jewish quarter of an European town. The term "ghetto" is now commonly used to refer to any poverty-stricken urban area with a concentration of minority groups.

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ghetto in sign language