What does slum mean?

Definitions for slum
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slum, slum areaverb

    a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions

  2. slumverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. slumnoun

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

  2. slumverb

    To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

  3. slumverb

    To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.

Wikipedia

  1. Slum

    A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people. Although slums are usually located in urban areas, in some countries they can be located in suburban areas where housing quality is low and living conditions are poor. While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement, and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings which, because of poor-quality construction or lack of basic maintenance, have deteriorated.Due to increasing urbanization of the general populace, slums became common in the 19th to late 20th centuries in the United States and Europe. Slums are still predominantly found in urban regions of developing countries, but are also still found in developed economies. The world's largest slum city is found in Orangi, Karachi, Pakistan.Slums form and grow in different parts of the world for many different reasons. Causes include rapid rural-to-urban migration, economic stagnation and depression, high unemployment, poverty, informal economy, forced or manipulated ghettoization, poor planning, politics, natural disasters, and social conflicts. Strategies tried to reduce and transform slums in different countries, with varying degrees of success, include a combination of slum removal, slum relocation, slum upgrading, urban planning with citywide infrastructure development, and public housing. The UN defines slums as .... individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area, housing durability, and security of tenure

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  1. slum

    A slum is an overcrowded urban area that is often characterized by substandard housing conditions, inadequate access to clean water and sanitation, high crime rates and other social issues due to poverty. It is typically inhabited by the poor or socially disadvantaged people.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slumnoun

    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

  2. Slumnoun

    same as Slimes

  3. Etymology: [CF. Slump, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Slum

    A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030. The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once relatively affluent but which deteriorated as the original dwellers moved on to newer and better parts of the city, but has come to include the vast informal settlements found in cities in the developing world. Many shanty town dwellers vigorously oppose the description of their communities as 'slums' arguing that this results in them being pathologised and then, often, subject to threats of evictions. Many academics have vigorously criticized UN-Habitat and the World Bank arguing that their 'Cities Without Slums' Campaign has led directly to a massive increase in forced evictions.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slum

    slum, n. a low street or neighbourhood.—v.i. to visit the slums of a city, esp. from motives of curiosity.—ns. Slum′mer, one who slums; Slum′ming, the practice of visiting slums.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slum in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of slum in a Sentence

  1. Magdalene Mwikali:

    When Pope Francis weaved through the slum's narrow streets in Pope Francis popemobile, adoring crowds reached out to touch Pope Francis hand as Pope Francis waved from behind a clear protective covering. Women ululated as children crooned Swahili welcome songs. ' I'm so happy, we are so blessed, he's left all those rich neighborhoods to come here.

  2. Spiro Agnew:

    To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  3. Tin Swe Myint:

    We just don't know how many people exactly were buried since we don't have any data on people living there, it was just a slum with these ... workers living in makeshift tents.

  4. Charlemagne Hernandez:

    I come from a slum in Manila originally, so it's true, it's not the same kind of poverty, but if you're hungry, you're hungry. That's a benchmark you can not deny.

  5. Nawneet Ranjan:

    Girls and women suffer the most in a slum, as they often have no resources and are not aware of their rights, i wanted to teach the girls how to use technology to get ahead.

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