concrete junglenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌkɒŋ.kriːt ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/us/ˌkɑːn.kriːt ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡəl/an ugly grey area of a city where people live in closely crowded apartment buildings and there is little space and no trees or grass
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- estate
- exurb
- ghetto
- inner city
- precinct
- red-light district
- slum
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
- town
- trading estate
- warren
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Examples from literature
- Like wisps of smoke, memories of his youth in the concrete jungle drifted through his mind.