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[ sluhm ] / slʌm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR slum ON THESAURUS.COM
nounOften slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people. any squalid, run-down place to live. verb (used without object), slummed, slum·ming.to visit slums, especially from curiosity. to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status. Origin of slum1805–15; compare earlier argot slum room; origin obscure OTHER WORDS FROM slumslummer, nounde·slum, verb (used with object), de·slummed, de·slum·ming.Words nearby slumsluggish, sluice, sluicegate, sluiceway, sluit, slum, slumber, slumberland, slumberous, slumber party, slumbershade Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for slumAccording to estimates, more than half of Nairobi’s four million people live in informal settlements, sometimes called slums. A dirty and growing problem: Too few toilets|Stephanie Parker|September 24, 2020|Science News For Students The volunteers of the organisation provide a training program under which these women from slums, villages, govt. Menstruation Comes With Innumerable Taboos In India|LGBTQ-Editor|May 29, 2020|No Straight News More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments. Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum|Joel Kotkin|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama. Uganda Gays Face New Wave of Fear Under Anti-Gay Bill|Caelainn Hogan|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A five-minute stroll from the memorial hall, in the slum he lives in, Cheng adopts a different tone. China Propagandizes Rape Of Nanjing Survivors|Brendon Hong|December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST In 1971, slum dwellers accounted for one in six Mumbai residents. City Leaders Are in Love With Density but Most City Dwellers Disagree|Joel Kotkin|September 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST Police have reclaimed 33 slum communities once dominated by drug traffickers. Rio’s Security Crisis|Mac Margolis|August 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST The distance, and the fact of the church being in a slum, he maintained, would not be in itself a drawback. Evelyn Innes|George Moore I spoke of the instinct for the crowd in the tenement house boy as evidence that the slum had got its grip on him. A Ten Year War|Jacob A. Riis Liquor in large quantities was distributed among the slum classes further to inflame their minds. The Iron Heel|Jack London That night the police were fortunate enough to capture both Murdock and Wickham in a Liverpool slum. A Master of Mysteries|L. T. Meade She discovered his lodgings at last, in a slum on the lower east side. The Nest Builder|Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
British Dictionary definitions for slum
nouna squalid overcrowded house, etc (often plural) a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of slumsslum conditions verb slums, slumming or slummed (intr)to visit slums, esp for curiosity Also: slum it to suffer conditions below those to which one is accustomed Derived forms of slumslummer, nounslummy, adjectiveWord Origin for slumC19: originally slang, of obscure origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to slumskid row |