slumnoun [ C ]
uk/slʌm/us/slʌm/a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city:
an inner-city slum
She was brought up in the slums of Lima.
informal disapproving a very untidy or dirty place:
This house would be an absolute slum if I wasn't here to clean it.
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Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- concrete jungle
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- estate
- exurb
- ghetto
- inner city
- precinct
- red-light district
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
- town
- trading estate
- warren
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Unpleasant places
slummy
adjective uk/ˈslʌm.i/us/ˈslʌm.i/
She found herself in a slummy back street.
slumverb
uk/slʌm/us/slʌm/informalslum it
to spend time in conditions that are much less good than the standard that you are used to:
We ran out of money on holiday and had to slum it in cheap hostels.
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Living or sleeping somewhere
- abide
- domiciled
- dwell
- exist
- habitable
- inhospitable
- live in
- live in sin idiom
- live out
- live-in
- lodge
- residence
- residency
- resident
- residential
- room
- root
- settle
- settle down
- squat
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