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]