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- Dictionaryslum/slʌm/
noun
- 1. a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people: "inner-city slums"
verb
- 1. spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes: informal "he bought some second-hand clothes, and slummed among the metropolis's underprivileged"
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SLUM definition: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. [1] .
The meaning of SLUM is a densely populated usually urban area marked especially by poverty. How to use slum in a sentence.
Slum definition: a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.. See examples of SLUM used in a sentence.
SLUM meaning: 1. a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: 2. a very untidy or dirty place: 3. to…. Learn more.
If someone is slumming it or is slumming, they are spending time in a place or in conditions that are at a much lower social level than they are used to.
1. a squalid overcrowded house, etc. 2. (Human Geography) ( 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. vb ( intr) , slums, slumming or slummed.
