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.
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.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city; a populated place.
The act of settling.
The state of being settled.
A resolution of a dispute.
A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
A mutual agreement to end a dispute without resorting to legal proceedings, also known as an out-of-court settlement or settling out of court.
The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.