Thesaurus:slum

English

Synonyms

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

Hooverville (US)
rookery (UK)

Hypernyms

section of a town [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

Holonyms

city [⇒ thesaurus]
settlement [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

urban blight

Further reading

“slum” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“slum” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

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