ghetto
(noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
ghetto
(noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; “the Warsaw ghetto”
ghetto
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ghetto (plural ghettos or ghettoes or ghetti)
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 (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
(figurative, sometimes pejorative) An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
• (often impoverished area of a city): see slum
• (figurative): ivory tower (academic ghetto)
ghetto (comparative more ghetto, superlative most ghetto)
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
ghetto (third-person singular simple present ghettoes, present participle ghettoing, simple past and past participle ghettoed)
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Source: Wiktionary
Ghet"to, n. Etym: [It.]
Definition: The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 June 2025
(adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; “a modest apartment”; “too modest to wear his medals”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
