'Slum' definitions:
Definition of 'slum'
(from WordNet)
noun
A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [syn: slum, slum area]
verb
Spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
Definition of 'Slum'
From: GCIDE
- Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), n. [CF. Slump, n.]
- 1. 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. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Mining) Same as Slimes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slum'
From: GCIDE
- Slum \Slum\ (sl[u^]m), v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called go slumming. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'slum'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Augean stables,
- barrio,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- Bowery,
- business district,
- central city,
- Chinatown,
- city center,
- core,
- downtown,
- dump,
- East End,
- East Side,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- hole,
- hovel,
- inner city,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- midtown,
- muck,
- outskirts,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- rookery,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- skid,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slab,
- slums,
- stable,
- stew,
- sty,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement,
- tenement district,
- the slums,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- warren,
- West End,
- West Side