Nepali to English Meaning :: बस्ती
बस्ती: Colony   Ghetto   
Colony :
बस्ती
Synonyms :
Settlement, Community, Dependency
English Meaning :
(Noun : A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)
Example : To all intents and purposes, Britain has assumed de facto control of the government of its former colony .
Word Example from TV Shows :
Hawaii is a former leper colony
on top of an active volcano

 Hawaii is a former leper COLONY on top of an active volcano (The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 16)

Ghetto :
बस्ती
Synonyms :
Ghetto, Colony, Tenement, Shanty-town, Jewry
English Meaning :
(Noun : Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live)
Example : In the Jewish ghetto stands a 15th century house, adorned with a fragment of classical frieze and a stone lion, borrowed from some ruin that had no further use for it.
Word Example from TV Shows :
They got ghetto birds
and black ops.

 They got GHETTO birds and black ops. (Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 2)

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