Slum : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Slum	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Slum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slum n a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions Synonym(s): slum, slum area v spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slum \Slum\, v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slum \Slum\, n. [CF. {Slump}, n.] 1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. --Dickens. 2. pl. (Mining) Same as {Slimes}.