Ghetto

n. highly populated area of a city inhabited mainly by people of the same ethnic or minority group; formerly a section within a city in which Jews were forced to live (especially during World War II)

A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. The word was originally used to refer to the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, where Jews were required to live. The corresponding German term was Judengasse. In Moroccan Arabic, ghettos were called mellah. The term came into widespread use during World War II to refer to Nazi ghettos.
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Noun
1. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
(hypernym) quarter
(derivation) ghettoize, ghettoise
2. any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
(hypernym) life
3. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
(hypernym) city district

n. (new spell.=Getto) ghetto, highly populated area of a city inhabited mainly by people of the same ethnic or minority group; section within a city in which Jews were forced to live

n. ghetto, highly populated area of a city inhabited mainly by people of the same ethnic or minority group; formerly a section within a city in which Jews were forced to live (especially during World War II)