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In the 16th Century, European languages adopted the Venetian word geto meaning "foundry," a metal casting factory. The English word "ghetto" is from the Italian getto meaning "casting." These words derive from the Latin gettare, to pour or cast.
The first neighborhood ghetto was formed in 16th Century Venice, Italy, near the site of a former metal casting factory. It was marked off as the small enclave where Italy forced Jews to live. This set the precedent for ghettos in other parts of Europe.
In sociology today a ghetto is still a densely populated, slum neighborhood where a socially and economically deprived minority lives.
More broadly the adjective ghetto means enclosed or segregated: the ghetto neighborhood; a ghetto mentality; job ghettos for immigrants; nursing home ghettos for the elderly.
So an antonym for the adjective ghetto is: open.
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