slum

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++slum1 /slʌm/ ●○○ noun  1  [countable]POOR a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live 〔城市中的〕贫民窟，贫民区 a slum area 贫民区 slum housing 贫民区的住房 the slums of London 伦敦的贫民区► see thesaurus at area2. [singular] British English informalUNTIDY a very untidy place 非常脏乱的地方

Examples from the Corpus

slum• Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.• Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.• The overall effect was that the world's largest and richest city of the time contained the world's most extensive slums.• He resumed his familiar whirlwind visits to the Lima slums, feeding on the energy of friendly crowds.• I grew up in the East London slums.• In the slums you can now hear the children singing.• A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses.slum2 verb  slum it/be slumming informalPOOR to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to – often used humorously 过穷日子，过简陋生活〔常为幽默用法〕 Jeremy doesn’t slum it when he goes away. 杰里米出门在外是不会亏待自己的。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

slum• You just can not go slumming, because slumming pretends that slums aren't real.• She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.• With other upper-middle-class young men who were studying art, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.• Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York.

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slum¹ /slʌm/ noun
1. [countable] a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live:
    a slum area
    slum housing
    the slums of London
2. [singular] British English informal a very untidy place
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ area a part of a town or country, or of the world: They live in a very wealthy area. | coastal areas
   ▪ region a large area of a country or the world: the northwest region of Russia | desert regions
   ▪ zone an area that is different from other areas around it in some way: a war zone | a no-parking zone | We crossed two different time zonesareas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.
   ▪ district one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens: the Chelsea district of Manhattan | the business/financial/theatre etc district: the financial district of London
   ▪ neighbourhood British English, neighborhood American English /ˈneɪbəhʊd $ -ər-/ an area of a town where people live: a friendly neighbourhood | There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
   ▪ suburb an area outside the centre of a city, where people live: a suburb of Boston
   ▪ quarter an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live: the French quarter of New Orleans
   ▪ slum an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live: He grew up in the slums of East London.
   ▪ ghetto an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live: a black baby born in the ghetto

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slum² verb
slum it/be slumming informal to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to – often used humorously:
    Jeremy doesn’t slum it when he goes away.