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Slum

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Noun

1. slum, slum area

a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

Verb

2. slum

spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive

Example Sentences:
'attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slum

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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
verbWord forms: slums, slumming or slummed (intransitive)
4. 
to visit slums, esp for curiosity
5. Also: slum it
to suffer conditions below those to which one is accustomed

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Slum

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noun
1. 
a usually heavily populated area of a city, characterized by poverty, poor housing, etc.
2. 
something considered to be like a slum, as in being dilapidated or dirty
verb intransitiveWord forms: slummed or ˈslumming
3. 
to visit or tour slums, esp. for reasons held to be condescending

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slum

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n. often slums
A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor: grew up in a slum near downtown; lived in the slums by the river.
intr.v. slummed, slum·ming, slums
To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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