All core city synonyms
core cit·y
C c noun core city
- downtown — to or in the main business section of a city.
- slum — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- ghetto — a section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
- core — The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- barrio — A barrio is a mainly Spanish-speaking area in an American city.