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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Early 19th century. Originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom" [attested 1812]; of unknown origin.

Noun

slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)

1. (countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum

   • 1855, Charles Dickens, "Gambling", in Household Words Volume 31

     Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi:

     I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
2. (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

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Verb

slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)

1. (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

Derived terms

• slum it
• slummer

Etymology 2

See slumgullion.

Noun

slum (uncountable)

1. (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

Further reading

• slum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lums, MLUs, UMLS, lums

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slum]
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

slum m

1. slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

Further reading

• slum in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slum m (definite singular slummen, indefinite plural slummar, definite plural slummane)

1. a slum

References

• “slum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???m

Noun

slum f (definite sluma)

1. Old, sour and blue buttermilk without cream.

English

Etymology

slum +? dog; first appeared in the 2008 British romantic comedy film Slumdog Millionaire.

Noun

slumdog (plural slumdogs)

1. In India, a person who lives in the slums of cities.