ghetto vs province

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. 

province

noun
  • An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. 

  • The parts of a country outside its capital city. 

  • An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. 

  • A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. 

  • An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order. 

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