colony vs ghetto

colony

noun
  • A group of people, of one nationality, ethnic group, or language, residing in a different country, city, or area; the area such people occupy. 

  • A local group of Beaver Scouts. 

  • A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy. 

  • A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters. 

  • A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association. 

  • A group of bacteria, fungi or other cells cultured together, especially from a single cell. 

  • A group of people who settle such an area and maintain ties to their native country, and (later) their descendants. 

  • An area under the political control of another country and typically occupied by settlers (colonists) from it, or by their descendants. 

  • An apartment complex or neighborhood. 

ghetto

noun
  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • 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.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

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