slum

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Slum homes in Saigon, Vietnam.

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  Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

slum (plural slums)

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

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• ghetto
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Translations

dilapidated neighborhood

• Arabic: منطقة عشوائية (ar) (manṭaqa ʿašwāʾíyya) f
• Belarusian: трушчоба (be) (truščóba) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧民窟 (cmn), 贫民窟 (cmn) (pínmínkū), 棚戶區 (cmn), 棚户区 (cmn) (pénghùqū)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: kvartalaĉo (eo)
• Finnish: slummi (fi)
• French: bidonville (fr) m
• German: Slum (de) m
• Greek: φτωχογειτονιά (el) (ftochogeitoniá) f 
• Hindi: बस्ती (hi) (bastī) f, गंदी बस्ती (hi) (gandī bastī) f
• Hungarian: nyomornegyed (hu)
• Indonesian: kawasan kumuh (id)
• Japanese: スラム (ja) (suramu), 貧民街 (ja) (ひんみんがい, hinmingai), 貧民窟 (ja) (ひんみんくつ, hinminkutsu)
• Korean: 빈민굴 (ko) (binmingul)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: setinggan (ms)

• Norwegian: slum (no) m
• Polish: slums (pl) m
• Portuguese: favela (pt) f (Brazil), bairro de lata (pt) m (Portugal), musseque (pt) m (Angola)
• Russian: трущоба (ru) (truščóba) f 
• Spanish: barrio marginal m, barrio pobre m  ; (regional) asentamiento f (Guatemala), barriada bruja f (Panama), barriada de emergencia f (Panama), barrio m (Venezuela), barrio de chabolas m (Spain), barrio periférico m (Ecuador), cantegril m (Uruguay), colonia de paracaidistas f (Mexico), colonia proletaria f (Mexico), ciudad perdida f (Mexico), población callampa f (Chile), precario m (Costa Rica), pueblo joven m (Peru), tugurio m (Colombia), villa miseria f (Argentina, Paraguay), barrio bajo (es) m
• Swahili: kitongoji duni (sw), kitongoji duni (sw)
• Swedish: slum (sv) c
• Tamil: சேரி (ta) (cēri)
• Telugu: మురికివాడ (te) (murikivāḍa)
• Thai: ชุมชนแออัด (th) (chum chon ae àt), สลัม (th) (sà-lăm)
• Ukrainian: трущоба (uk) (truščóba) f 
• Urdu: بستی (ur) (bastī) f
• Vietnamese: khu ổ chuột (vi)
• Volapük: luharat (vo), luslöm (vo), slöm (vo), pöfanaharat (vo)

Verb

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

1. To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
2. To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.

Anagrams

• lums, UMLS