ghettos

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Original form: ghetto

貧民窟 / 隔都

Poor, overcrowded urban areas where minority or disadvantaged groups are forced to live (noun, plural)

Example sentences:

-Many immigrants ended up living in the city’s ghettos with limited opportunities.

-The ghettos during World War II were places of extreme suffering for Jewish families.

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