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.
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.
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.