slum1 nounslum2 verb
slumslum1 /slʌm/ ●○○ noun 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I grew up in the East London slums.
- Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.
- A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses.
- He resumed his familiar whirlwind visits to the Lima slums, feeding on the energy of friendly crowds.
- In the slums you can now hear the children singing.
- Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.
- The overall effect was that the world's largest and richest city of the time contained the world's most extensive slums.
THESAURUS
a part of a town or country, or of the world: · They live in a very wealthy area.· coastal areas
a large area of a country or the world: · the northwest region of Russia· desert regions
an area that is different from other areas around it in some way: · a war zone· a no-parking zone· We crossed two different time zones (=areas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.)
one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens: · the Chelsea district of Manhattanthe business/financial/theatre etc district: · the financial district of London
British English American English an area of a town where people live: · a friendly neighbourhood· There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
an area outside the centre of a city, where people live: · a suburb of Boston
an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live: · the French quarter of New Orleans
an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live: · He grew up in the slums of East London.
an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live: · a black baby born in the ghetto
Longman Language Activatoran area where poor people live the part near the middle of a city where the buildings are in bad condition and where a lot of poor people live: · the problems of Britain's inner cities
an area of a city where the houses are in very bad condition and the people are very poor and live in dirty, crowded, and unhealthy conditions: · Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.the slums: · I grew up in the East London slums.
a poor and crowded part of a city, where people live separately from the rest of the population, especially people of one race or from one country. Inner city is now more common than ghetto: · a novel about life in the ghettos of New York· Ottovina lived on the South Side, in the Italian ghetto, and barely spoke any English at all.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flooding caused by forest clearance
1[countable] a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live: flooding caused by forest clearance (=where poor people live in very bad conditions)· Rats were running all over the slum districts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· As the city slumbers, a slum area in a remote corner of the metropolis goes up in flames.· It was, of course, laudable to clear the rookeries; essential to drive new roads through slum areas.· Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around.· Humorous description of the appearance and the denizens of this slum area of London.
· Most slum children do not go to school, are very poor, and speak only Hindi.· None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.· Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea?· Ragged slum children, singing their absurd street rhymes.
· In the sequel, Whoopi will play a nun who helps a gospel choir in a city slum.· Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.· And what offends against it is the mill chimney and the steam engine, factory-labour and the city slum.· But land reform could create the jobs which poor people from rural areas seek in city slums.· We no longer allow the weak or foolish or unfortunate to perish in the gutters of a city slum.
· But the end of slum clearance came more with a change in values: away from demolition, to conservation and rehabilitation.· However, slum clearance and replacement was for the poor.· It also extended them to cover land affected by new town designation orders, slum clearance orders and new street orders.· Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.· On a big estate - slum clearance - in the North.· Elsewhere slum clearance activity was much more piecemeal and avoided spectacular set pieces.· The Chamberlain Act also provided for subsidising slum clearance schemes.· Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
· Answers to these questions have important implications for slum dwellers, whose only local source of medical care may be private doctors.· Half the populations of Delhi, Nairobi, and Manila are slum dwellers.
VERB· The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre.· The distant workers who supported this wealth lived in noisome slums.
a slum area slum housing the slums of London► see thesaurus at area2[singular] British English informal a very untidy placeslum1 nounslum2 verb
slumslum2 verb VERB TABLE
slum
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slum |
| he, she, it | slums | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slummed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slummed |
| he, she, it | has slummed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slummed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slum |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slummed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slumming |
| he, she, it | is slumming | |
| you, we, they | are slumming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slumming |
| you, we, they | were slumming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slumming |
| he, she, it | has been slumming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slumming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slumming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slumming |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.
- Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York.
- With other upper-middle-class young men who were studying art, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.
- You just can not go slumming, because slumming pretends that slums aren't real.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES flooding caused by forest clearance
slum it/be slumming informal to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to – often used humorously: flooding caused by forest clearance (=where poor people live in very bad conditions)· Rats were running all over the slum districts.
Jeremy doesn’t slum it when he goes away.