Thesaurus:slum

THESAURUS

slum

English

Synonyms

barrio (Venezuela, Dominican Republic)

bad part of town

estate (UK)

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 [WS]

Meronyms

building [WS]

flophouse

doss-house

tenement

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street [WS]

Holonyms

city [WS]

settlement [WS]

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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