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slum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | slum area |
| Type of | city district |
| Has types | shantytown, skid row |
| Derivation | slummy |
slum::verb | Spocien Dictionary
spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | pass, spend |
attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century.
Examples of slum
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Most of the girls in Naliaka's golf academy come from Kibera, a slum in Nairobi.
From the cnn.com
He lived in a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and was nursed by his mother.
From the economist.com
So he literally knocked a hole in the office wall to the slum on the other side.
From the techcrunch.com
Mumbai's Dharavi slum and others are getting more attention because of the film.
From the washingtonpost.com
The sloping three-foot-high mound gives off the unmistakable stench of the slum.
From the denverpost.com
The owners of much slum land have long since abandoned any serious claims to it.
From the economist.com
They were awful and the only person who would buy them would be a slum landlord.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Let them slum it cooking chili and tuna casserole and ordering Chinese take-out.
From the courier-journal.com
Of course there are slum landlords and others who pay little regards to the law.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
- Spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
- A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. ...
- Slumming (derived from slum) originally referred to a practice, fashionable among certain segments of the middle class in many Western countries, whereby one deliberately patronizes areas or establishments which are populated by, or intended for, people well below one's own socio-economic level, ...
- A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty; To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own; To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own
- (Slums) (Manila) The Manila slums are surreal from the air and the large number of small shacks built on thin bamboo stilts along the coast are quite a sight.
- (slums) Legal but inadequate multifamily tenements or rooming houses; some are custom built for rent to poor people, others are converted from some other use.
- (slums) Poor, crowded section of the city with run-down and unsafe housing.
- A household that lacks any one of the following five elements: access to sufficient amounts of water for family use at an affordable price, without being subject to extreme effort; access to improved sanitation, either in the form of a private toilet or a public toilet shared with a reasonable ...
