Slum

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  • noun. A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor.
  • intransitive verb. To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.
  • idiom. (slum it) To endure conditions or accommodations that are worse than what one is accustomed to.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In metallurgy, same as slime, 3: chiefly in the plural.
  • noun. A dirty back street of a city, especially such a street inhabited by a squalid and criminal population; a low and dangerous neighborhood: chiefly in the plural: as, the slums of Whitechapel and Westminster in London.
  • To keep to back streets.
  • To visit the slums of a city, often from mere curiosity or as a diversion.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural.
  • noun. Same as Slimes.
  • intransitive verb. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
  • verb. To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
  • verb. To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
  • noun. a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
    • Word Usage
    "In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pass  spend  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brum  Krum  Mum  alum  become  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alley  bazaar  brothel  byway  dwelling  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Augean stables  Bowery  Chinatown  East End  East Side  
    variant
    go slumming  slimes  slummed  slumming  
    verb-form
    slummed  slumming  slums  
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