an area of a city that is very poor and where the houses are dirty and in bad condition a slum area city/urban slums She was brought up in the slums of Leeds. slum clearance schemes a plan to rehouse slum dwellers a kid from the slums born in the slums of East London Wordfindercityamenity, city, ghetto, high-rise, metropolitan, population, slum, suburb, town, urban Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivecrowded, overcrowded, teeming, … verb + slumclear, demolish, live in, … slum + nounconditions, area, district, … prepositionfrom the slums, in a/the slums See full entry See related entries: Poverty and famine Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally slang, in the sense ‘room’): of unknown origin.
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