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noun

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The correct spelling is ghettos. 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.)

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  1. 1.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.)
  2. 2.An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
  3. 3.An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
  4. 4.(sometimes derogatory) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.

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