slum
noun/slʌm/
/slʌm/
- an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition
- a slum area
- city/urban slums
- She was brought up in the slums of Leeds.
- slum clearance schemes
- a plan to rehouse slum dwellers
- a kid from the slums
- born in the slums of East London
WordfinderTopics Social issuesb2, Buildingsb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crowded
- overcrowded
- teeming
- …
- clear
- demolish
- live in
- …
- conditions
- area
- district
- …
- from the slums
- in a/the slums
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.
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