A dense collection of housing, esp. in a slum area; (also) a lodging house with overcrowded quarters.

A street, alley, court, etc., situated in a crowded district of a town or city and inhabited by people of a low class or by the very poor; a number…

Slums collectively; the inhabitants of the slums; the condition or character of slums or slum-dwellers.

A building or settlement likened to a rabbit-warren; †a brothel; a building or cluster of dwellings (esp. if partly underground) densely populated…

Slums collectively; slumdom.

the slums.

an area of land having small, roughly-constructed dwellings with shared facilities, originally inhabited by labourers but later also used…

(a) (U.S.) the yard of a tenement building; (b) (esp. in Jamaica and Guyana) an area of land with multiple small, poor-quality houses that have…

In Italy: a district of improvised or poor quality residential housing, typically located on the outskirts of a city; a slum.

a row of unsightly buildings along the side of a road (see quot. 1939).

an area in or around a town, occupied (usually without permission) by the very poor for whom no housing provision has been made.

In Brazil, a shack, shanty; a slum: usually in plural favelas, a collection of improvised huts, a shanty town.