Ghetto
Ghetto noun - A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Ghetto
Place
Place noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
-
Some early reviews of Game of Thrones place it squarely in the ghetto, comparing it with The Hobbit (naturally), even going so far as to claim Network Decay of HBO.
Source: Sci-Fi Ghetto -
The title ghetto in City of God — a place controlled by drug gangs where little children murder each other in the streets.
Source: Wretched Hive -
Justified as the place is actually in a Chinese ghetto, complete with signs in Mandarin.
Source: Film / Total Recall (2012)
Cite this Source
Place and Ghetto. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ghetto/place
Ghetto & Place. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ghetto/place>.
Place or Ghetto. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ghetto/place.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "ghetto" and "place" have occurred on timeline