Associations to the word «Slumming»
Noun
- Clinic
- Crime
- Worker
- Landlord
- Liverpool
- Shelter
- Thousand
- Violence
- Manhattan
- Accommodation
- Home
- Hiv
- Brazil
- Urbanization
- Villa
- Planning
- Building
- Caracas
- Child
- Beverly
- Sewage
- India
- Metropolis
- Gutter
- Reclamation
- Blight
- Filth
- Labourer
- Malnutrition
- Rooftop
- Funk
- Cholera
- Homelessness
- Plight
- Terran
- Prostitution
- Bombay
- Epidemic
- Hygiene
- Millionaire
- Trash
- Amenity
- Kat
- Hop
- Blitz
- Weeks
- Village
- Periphery
- Subsidy
- Carlton
- Dump
- Industrialization
- Barnett
- Pollution
- Hills
- Gangster
- Maharashtra
- Regeneration
- Karachi
- Programme
- Juror
- Brighton
- Degradation
- Scheme
Adjective
Wiktionary
SLUM, noun. A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
SLUM, verb. To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
SLUM, verb. To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
Dictionary definition
SLUM, noun. A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions.
SLUM, verb. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.