noun Download 🔗Share 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.) Examples : "During World War II, the Nazis forced Jewish families to live in walled ghettos before deporting them to concentration camps. " history society politics race place area nation group inhuman war suffering law organization Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race. Examples : "Many immigrant families first lived in the city's ghettos, where rent was cheap and they could find community with others who shared their language and culture. " area culture society history race place nation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. Examples : "During finals week, the library transformed into temporary ghettos of stressed-out students, each dedicated to their specific subject, like history or chemistry. " area society history culture group Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. Examples : ""The school's music program, sadly underfunded and lacking resources, had become one of the academic ghettos, separated from the main focus on math and science." " area society culture history place Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading