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 [also: {ghettoes} (pl)] ghettoes See {ghetto}