/'getəʊ; `ˇɛto/
n (pl ~s)
1 (formerly in some countries) Jewish quarter of a town （旧时某些国家的）城市中的犹太人区.
2 (often derog 常作贬义) area of a town lived in by any minority national or social group, typically crowded and with poor housing conditions 少数民族居住区; 贫民区
*the clearance of slum ghettos to make way for new housing developments 为建筑新住宅区而对贫民区的拆除
* a rich people's ghetto, ie an area in a town where rich people live, surrounded by poorer people （贫民区中的）富人区.

npluralghettosorghettoes[C]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Italian;Origin: , perhaps from getto 'place where metals are melted and made into things'; because a 16th-century ghetto in Venice was where such a place had once existed]
a part of a city where people of a particular race or class, especially people who are poor, live separately from the rest of the people in the city. This word is sometimes considered offensive
→slum
　unemployment in the ghetto
a part of a city where Jews were forced to live in the past
　the Warsaw ghetto