Definitions
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
Word origin
Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is uncertain. Compare Italian ghetto.
Used in a sentence
“[…] concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp […]”
“Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.”
“Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Poor urban district”6 letters
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