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| Main Entry: | ghetto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slum |
| Synonyms: | public squalor, rundown section of a city |
| 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: | area, block, closeness, confines, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, quarter, region, section, slum, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo, adjacency, contiguity, locality, purlieus, stomping ground, vicinage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | region |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, domain; scope |
| Synonyms: | arena, bailiwick, belt, block, clearing, country, district, division, domain, dominion, environs, expanse, field, ghetto, ground, inner city, jungle, land, locale, neighborhood, part, place, precinct, province, quarter, range, realm, scene, section, sector, sphere, suburb, terrain, territory, tract, turf*, vicinity, walk, ward, world, zone, demesne, locality, neck of woods, shire, stomping ground |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inner city |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | city center |
| Synonyms: | core, downtown, ghetto, skid row, slum, barrio, center city, central city, condemned buildings, core city, public housing district, slums, urban city, urban ghetto |
| Main Entry: | skid row |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | squalid district |
| Synonyms: | ghetto, Bowery, favela, red-light district, skid road, tenderloin |
| Main Entry: | enclosure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area bounded by something |
| Synonyms: | asylum, aviary, bowl, building, cage, camp, cell, close, coliseum, coop, corral, court, courtyard, den, dungeon, garden, ghetto, hutch, jail, pale, park, patch, pen, place, plot, pound, precinct, prison, quad, quadrangle, region, room, stadium, stockade, sty, vault, walk, yard, zone |
| Antonyms: | open |
| Main Entry: | quarter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | bearing, direction, district, division, domain, ghetto, inner city, location, neck of the woods, part, place, point, position, precinct, province, region, section, sector, side, skid row, slum, spot, station, territory, turf, zone, zoo, barrio, locality, old town, stomping ground |
| Main Entry: | depressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disadvantaged |
| Synonyms: | destitute, distressed, ghetto, ghost, impaired, needy, poor, poverty-stricken, run-down, shanty, skid row*, underprivileged, weakened, cheapened, depreciated, deprived, devalued |
| Antonyms: | blessed, flourishing, prosperous, rich |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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