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Definitions for Slum

[1] Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
[2] any squalid, run-down place to live.
[3] to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
[4] to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.
[5] a squalid overcrowded house, etc
[6] (often plural) a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding
[7] (modifier) of, relating to, or characteristic of slums slum conditions
[8] to visit slums, esp for curiosity
[9] Also: slum it to suffer conditions below those to which one is accustomed

Words nearby Slum

sluggish, sluice, sluicegate, sluiceway, sluit, slum, slumber, slumber party, slumberland, slumberous, slumbershade

Origin of Slum

1805–15; compare earlier argot slum room; origin obscure

Other words from Slum

slum·mer , noun
de·slum , verb (used with object), de·slummed, de·slum·ming.

Word origin for Slum

C19: originally slang, of obscure origin

Synonyms for Slum

blighted area, public squalor, run-down neighborhood, shanty town, skid row, tenement housing