ghetto vs tract

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. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

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. 

tract

noun
  • An area or expanse. 

  • Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions. 

  • A series of connected body organs, such as the digestive tract. 

  • A commentator's view or perspective on a subject. 

  • Continued or protracted duration, length, extent 

  • A brief treatise or discourse on a subject. 

  • A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses. 

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