The meaning of Slum

Slum – definition

noun
A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
Usage examples:
Inner-city slums
Synonims:
Hovel Ghetto Shanty town Favela Jhuggi Jhuggi jhopri Bustee Cabbagetown Rookery

verb
Spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
Usage examples:
He bought some second-hand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged

Slum translation into English

Slum: translate from English into Chinese

贫民窟

Slum: translate from English into Dutch

Sloppenwijk, Achterbuurt, Slop, Krottenbuurt, Achterbuurten bezoeken

Slum: translate from English into French

Taudis, Quartiers pauvres, Gourbi, Quartiers misérables, S'encanailler

Slum: translate from English into German

Slum, Elendsviertel, Elendsquartier, Primitiv leben

Slum: translate from English into Hindi

गंदी बस्ती, मैली-कुचैली गली

Slum: translate from English into Italian

Slum, Bassifondi, Tugurio, Catapecchia

Slum: translate from English into Korean

빈민굴, 이광, 불결한 장소, 빈민굴을 방문하다

Slum: translate from English into Russian

Трущобы, Трущоба, Посещать трущобы

Slum: translate from English into Spanish

Barrio bajo, Casucha, Visitar los barrios bajos, Portazo

Word origin

early 19th century (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.

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Slum synonims

bustee

noun
A slum area or shanty town.
Usage examples:
We took a little boat out and i demonstrated my inability to row for more than ten minutes as we pa…

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favela

noun
A brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.
Usage examples:
Rapidly growing populations in the favelas of the great urban centres

noun
A very poor and crowded area of a city in brazil

All meanings and translations of Favela

ghetto

noun
A poor urban area occupied primarily by a minority group or groups.
Usage examples:
As well as this lack of opportunity, there seems to be so much violence in the ghettos, in the slum…

verb
A part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.

noun
A very poor area of a city in which people of the same race or religion live, or a part of a society or group that is in some way set apart

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hovel

noun
A small squalid or simply constructed dwelling.
Usage examples:
People were living in rat-infested hovels

noun
A small home, esp. one that is dirty and in bad condition
Usage examples:
Their house was little more than a hovel.

All meanings and translations of Hovel

rookery

noun
A breeding colony of rooks, typically seen as a collection of nests high in a clump of trees.
Usage examples:
If a bird misbehaved itself such as claim or take over another bird's nest in the rookery the gener…

noun
Several rooks' nests, high up in the branches of a group of trees

All meanings and translations of Rookery

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