Quarter and Slum

Quarter

Quarter noun - An area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature.

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Slum and quarter are semantically related. in area topic. In some cases you can use "Slum" instead a noun "Quarter".

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

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

old	old quarter	old slum
rich	rich quarter	rich slum
full	full quarter	full slum
original	original quarter	original slum
Other adjectives: single, poor, entire, big.

Honor Harrington: The last quarter of Cauldron of Ghosts is a battle between the Mesan armed forces and the seccies note second-class citizens of the Neue Rostock slum.

Source: Urban Warfare
There's a variation in a recent Spirou and Fantasio story where the villain goes back to the nineteenth century to buy houses in the Marais quarter in Paris, then a common slum, now the most expensive part of the city.

Source: Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit
It even has a slum and an upper-class quarter.

Source: Western Animation / The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

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