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English Dictionary: GHETTO by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghetto
n
  1. formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
  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"
  3. a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghetto \Ghet"to\, n.
      A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
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