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- DictionarySlum/sləm/
noun
- 1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people: "inner-city slums"
verb
- 1. spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes: informal "he bought some secondhand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged"
The meaning of SLUM is a densely populated usually urban area marked especially by poverty. How to use slum in a sentence.
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1]
SLUM definition: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.
Slum definition: a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.. See examples of SLUM used in a sentence.
SLUM meaning: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.
A slum is a poor area of a big city. A slum is usually overcrowded and dirty, a discouraging place to live. Some of a city's neighborhoods are fancy and full of wealthy people, while others are slums (and most are somewhere in between).
noun. 1. a squalid overcrowded house, etc. 2. (often plural) a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding. 3. (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of slums. slum conditions.
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the word slum. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in North American English.
an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition. She was brought up in the slums of Leeds. Definition of slum noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a poor and crowded area of a city where the buildings are in a very bad condition: He grew up in the slums of Mexico City. slum areas.
