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.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
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.
In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
To visit residents of a parish.