Definition of: ghetto

(get′ō) noun plural ·tos or ·ti (-tē)
1. A part of a city or town, especially in Italy, in which Jews were formerly required to live.
2. A section of a city, often rundown or overcrowded, inhabited chiefly by a minority group that is effectively barred from living in other communities, as because of racial prejudice or for economic or social reasons. [<Ital.]