| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | squalid district |
| Synonyms: | Bowery, favela, ghetto, red-light district, skid road, tenderloin |
| Main Entry: | quarter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | barrio, bearing, direction, district, division, domain, ghetto, inner city, locality, location, neck of the woods, old town, part, place, point, position, precinct, province, region, section, sector, side, skid row, slum, spot, station, stomping ground, territory, turf, zone, zoo |
| Main Entry: | slum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghetto |
| Synonyms: | blighted area, public squalor, run-down neighborhood, shanty town, skid row, tenement housing |
| Notes: | a slum and a ghetto are different - if everyone is ethnically similar, it is a ghetto and if everyone is basically poor, it is a slum |
| Main Entry: | inner city |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | city center |
| Synonyms: | barrio, center city, central city, condemned buildings, core, core city, downtown, ghetto, public housing district, skid row, slum, slums, urban city, urban ghetto |