slumdomn.
Slums collectively; the inhabitants of the slums; the condition or character of slums or slum-dwellers.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of slum > collectively
slumdom1882
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s)
rookery1824
slum1825
slumdom1882
warren1884
slummery1892
slumland1893
barrack yard1903
tenement yard1914
borgata1929
string slum1939
squatter camp1956
favela1961
1882 Church Rev. XXII. 187 We have wandered through slumdom.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 July 2/1 To reform our prison system, to plant out slumdom in the country.
1896 Night & Day Feb. 2/3 Lodging houses in the deeps of London slumdom.
1927 G. B. Shaw in Yorks. Evening News 30 Nov. 9/2 Civilisation means ‘Respect my life and property and I will respect yours.’ Slumdom means ‘Disregard my life and property and I will disregard yours.’
1962 Economist 18 Aug. 593/1 Another 60,000 old houses slip into slumdom.
1973 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 13/1 A pre-war, cottage-type housing estate that is slipping into slumdom as fast as the downward slope will take it.
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