SLUM
\slˈʌm], \slˈʌm], \s_l_ˈʌ_m]\
Definitions of SLUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
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(of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions"
By Princeton University
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a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
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(of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc.
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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; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
By Oddity Software
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To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc.
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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; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
By Noah Webster.
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City, urban, rural, or suburban areas which are characterized by severe economic deprivation and by accompanying physical and social decay.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A low, dirty street or district of a city or town, inhabited by the very poor or criminal classes.
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Colloquially, to visit such neighborhoods as a fashionable amusement.
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Slummer.
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Slummed.
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Slumming.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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