Place and Slum

Place

Place noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.

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Slum and place are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slum" instead a noun "Place".

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

Slum noun - A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions.

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Place and slum are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Place" instead a noun "Slum".

full	full place	full slum
common	common place	common slum
original	original place	original slum
single	single place	single slum
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, big, terrible, worst.

You send somebody in (usually to loot the place) and it turns out on the inside it's got a dozen rooms and, while still being a pathetic slum, it's a pathetic slum about the size of a small mansion.

Source: Bigger on the Inside
While Venice has become a crimeridden slum in the wake of the Collapse, it's still recognizably the same place as it was in the original game.

Source: Video Game / Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Gaunt says that he got his cocaine from the Plains of Leng, a place that appears in several Lovecraft stories, and later Gaunt sends Ace to a Cambridge slum that is heavily implied to be at least a part of Leng itself.

Source: Literature / Needful Things

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