slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
slums
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pluralof slum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof slum (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
slumnounOften slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
Example Sentences
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Shortly after she arrived, more than 100,000 people were evicted from slums on the Yamuna River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Wine grew up in one of Kampala's biggest slums, Kamwokya, where thousands of Ugandans struggle to get by and feel forgotten by Museveni's government.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
Mr. Mamdani knows full well that rent restrictions produce slums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
He has also appeared at demonstrations, and spent Christmas Day visiting some slums and dancing with people in the streets.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
He moved across the dangerous new frontiers of deep alleyways and roiling slums.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
