ghetto vs neighborhood

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. 

neighborhood

noun
  • A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. 

  • The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex. 

  • The residential area near one's home. 

  • The inhabitants of a residential area. 

  • A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point. 

  • The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point. 

  • An approximate amount. 

  • The quality of physical proximity. 

  • A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. 

  • Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point. 

  • Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point. 

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