slums (noun)

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• slum — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ crowded, overcrowded, teeming ▪ sprawling, vast ▪ poor ▪ filthy ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Hell's Kitchen — noun a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice • Syn: ↑Hell s Half Acre • Instance Hypernyms: ↑city district • Part Holonyms: ↑Manhattan * * * (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly… …   Useful english dictionary

• tower block — noun tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments tower block is the British term for high rise • Syn: ↑high rise • Hypernyms: ↑tower * * * noun Britain : a tall building (as a high rise apartment building) …   Useful english dictionary

• public transport — noun conveyance for passengers or mail or freight • Hypernyms: ↑conveyance, ↑transport • Hyponyms: ↑bus, ↑autobus, ↑coach, ↑charabanc, ↑double decker, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• slum — noun a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people. ↘a house in such an area. verb (slums, slumming, slummed) (often slum it) informal voluntarily spend time in uncomfortable conditions or at a lower social level than one s… …   English new terms dictionary

• urban renewal — noun the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums • Hypernyms: ↑reclamation, ↑renewal, ↑rehabilitation * * * noun [noncount] : a process by which old buildings or buildings that are in bad condition in part of a city are replaced… …   Useful english dictionary

• god's country — noun Usage: usually capitalized G : a place conceived of as especially favored by God: as a. : an area of civilization (as a city) away from the frontier music heard long before … in God s country in the East Springfield (Massachusetts)… …   Useful english dictionary

• social evil — noun : prostitution used with the * * * 1. anything detrimental to a society or its citizens, as alcoholism, organized crime, etc. 2. prostitution. [1855 60] * * * social evil noun 1. Specif prostitution (archaic) 2 …   Useful english dictionary

• factory — noun (plural ries) Date: 1582 1. a station where factors reside and trade < a colonial factory > 2. a. a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing b. the seat of some kind of production < the vice factories of the slums > •… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• emblem — noun /ˈɛmbləm/ a) A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo. The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted. b) Something which represents a larger whole. The rampant poverty in the… …   Wiktionary

• slumdog — noun In India, a person who lives in the slums of cities …   Wiktionary