community vs ghetto

community

noun
  • The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common. 

  • A residential or religious collective; a commune. 

  • A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. 

  • A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition. 

  • A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community. 

  • A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England. 

ghetto

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

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

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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