1. conglomeration of predominantly chinese businesses and culture.
      (Other ethnicities have other districts, for example, [Little Tokyo] would be comprised of mostly japanese businesses.)

    2. A drama thriller made in 1974 directed by Roman Polanski and staring Jack Nicholson and [Faye Dunaway] about drought-ridden 30s L.A., corruption, weird family relations, and a divorce specializing private detective; spawned the phrase its Chinatown - the phrase is used to refer to a situation that is impossible to deal with due to the fact that it is the result of issues imbedded in a [tangled web] of too many peoples personal problems and/or ambitions, greed, or deviance, and that there is nothing one person on the outside of that web can do to set everything right because the whole situation is too fucked up.


    Chinatown meaning & definition 1 of Chinatown.


  • A district of a large non-Chinese town or port in which the population is predominantly of Chinese origin.

    Chinatown meaning & definition 2 of Chinatown.


  • an area of a city outside China where many Chinese people live and there are a lot of Chinese restaurants and shops

    Chinatown meaning & definition 3 of Chinatown.

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