Thesaurus:slum

Thesaurus

slum

English

Noun

Sense: a dilapidated high-density low-income urban housing development

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

• building    [⇒ thesaurus]
• flophouse
• doss-house
• tenement
•   —
• street    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• city    [⇒ thesaurus]
• settlement    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• inner city
• urban blight

Further reading

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