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slum 音标拼音: [sl'ʌm] n. 贫民窟
vi. 访问贫民区 贫民窟访问贫民区 slum n 1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions [ synonym: { slum}, { slum area}] v 1: 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" Slum \ Slum\ ( sl[ u^] m), n. [ CF. { Slump}, n.] 1. 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. -- Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] 2. pl. ( Mining) Same as { Slimes}. [ 1913 Webster]
Slum \ Slum\ ( sl[ u^] m), v. i. To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc. Also called { go slumming}. [ Colloq.] [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for " slum": Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel, inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, red- light district, residential district, rookery, run- down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row, slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight, warren
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