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Meanings of slum in English

Russian
баррьо
Portuguese
construção irregular
Spanish
chabola
Catalan
slum
Wikidata

Heavily populated urban settlement characterized by squalor.

        баррьо
        Portuguese
        favela
        Catalan
        barri baix

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

              favela
              Usage of slum in English
              1
              The poet knew it; the children knew it; the slum knew it.
              The Making of an American
              2
              Reuters has been exploring slum-like conditions in housing at U.S. military bases.
              Reuters
              3
              The heat and smell in the narrow slum were worse than usual.
              Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
              4
              If you want to slum, you should find a less dangerous place.
              Darkness unleashed
              5
              Nauru seems more like a slum solution than anything else', she said.
              The Guardian
              6
              Beggars interviewed recently in a Calcutta slum had never heard of her.
              The Irish Times
              7
              A vigorous and vivid story of boy life in a London slum.
              Adventures in Many Lands
              8
              And they went to live in a slum for three-and-sixpence a week.
              Esther Waters
              9
              Local schools in the slum neighbourhood are understaffed, underequipped and hugely oversubscribed.
              The Guardian
              10
              Aerial view of the Maré complex, the next slum to be pacified.
              The Guardian
              11
              Brazil is trying to turn its largest slum into a tourist attraction.
              The Irish Times
              12
              But no significant variation was noticed between rural and urban slum dwellers.
              Pubmed
              13
              Em's sister in the slum work gives us a sweet shy welcome.
              In Darkest England, and the Way Out
              14
              She died in 2008 and Singh eventually came back to the slum.
              Reuters
              15
              In the Kampala slum where he grew up, Robert Kyagulanyi is king.
              The Irish Times
              16
              He didn't care, they were only yeomen and slum slush, cannon fodder.
              The power of one
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              Translations for slum
              Spanish
              chabola
              Slum through the time
              Slum across language varieties
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              Common
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