a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.

(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.

a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.

any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment

job ghettos for women; ghettos for the elderly.

noun

public squalor , rundown section of a citynotes:a slum and a ghetto are different - if everyone is ethnically similar , it is a ghetto and if everyone is basically poor , it is a slum