Thesaurus:slum
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: a dilapidated high-density low-income urban housing development[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- barrio (Venezuela, Dominican Republic)
- bad part of town
- estate (UK)
- favela (Brazil)
- ghetto
- Hell's Kitchen
- jects (US)
- projects (US)
- scheme (UK)
- shantytown
- sink estate (UK)
- slum
Hyponyms[edit]
- Hooverville (US)
- rookery (UK)
Hypernyms[edit]
- section of a town [⇒ thesaurus]
Meronyms[edit]
Holonyms[edit]
Various[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “slum” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “slum” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.