Definitions for slum

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Spelling: [sluhm]
IPA: /slʌm/

Slum is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in slum (lmsu).

Definitions for slum

noun

  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.

verb (used without object)

  1. to visit slums, especially from curiosity.
  2. to visit or frequent a place, group, or amusement spot considered to be low in social status.

Origin of slum

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

Examples for slum

A five-minute stroll from the memorial hall, in the slum he lives in, Cheng adopts a different tone.

Police have reclaimed 33 slum communities once dominated by drug traffickers.

slum lowered his cocktail and turned a disgusted look on him.

If they were poor, like the slum people, I could understand it better.

It was like a slum hidden away in the heart of a fashionable city.

slum slid from the bar to the ground, and his deep-set eyes were smiling again.

More serious still, the slum dwellers face enormous risk from unsafely built environments.

In 1971, slum dwellers accounted for one in six Mumbai residents.

The same procedure was followed at noon when slum was served.

With a group of young men in the slum he formed Rock Angels, a drag act performing dance, music and drama.

Word Value for slum
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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