An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
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 (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
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.
The general area surrounding a place, environs.
A pedestrianized and uncovered shopping area.
A subdivision of a city or town for the purposes of voting and representation in city or town government. In cities, precincts may be grouped into wards.
A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
An enclosed space having defined limits, normally marked by walls.