ghetto
英 ['getəʊ]
美['ɡɛto]
- n. 犹太人区；贫民区
- vt. 使集中居住
英英释意
- 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