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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | sordid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dirty, bad, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, base, black, calculated, corrupt, covetous, debauched, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disreputable, dowdy, filthy, foul, grasping, grubby, ignoble, impure, low-down, mean, mercenary, miserable, miserly, nasty, poor, scurvy, seedy, self-seeking, selfish, servile, shabby, shameful, sleazy, slovenly, slum, slummy, small, small-minded, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, ungenerous, venal, vicious, vile, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, reputable, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | tenement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apartment house |
| Synonyms: | apartment complex, boarding house, coop, cooperative, den*, digs, dump*, flat, high-rise, high-rise apartment building, living quarters, pad, project housing, rental, slum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, belt, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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