Slum
noun
A poor, run-down place where a lot of people live, often very tightly together.
Many people in the city live in slums with poor living conditions.
Often appears as...
- live in a slum
- slum area
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Disapproving
verb
To spend time in places or conditions that are much worse than what you are used to.
He's been slumming in cheap bars all over town.
Often appears as...
- slumming it
- slumming around
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Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A poor, run-down place where a lot of people live, often very tightly together.
Many people in the city live in slums with poor living conditions.
Often appears as...
- live in a slum
- slum area
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To spend time in places or conditions that are much worse than what you are used to.
He's been slumming in cheap bars all over town.
Often appears as...
- slumming it
- slumming around
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Urban Poverty
Refers to impoverished areas in a city, indicating extreme poverty and crowded living.
International charities aim to improve life in urban slums.
Pro Tip 2/3Living Conditions
Implies inadequate access to services like clean water, sanitation, and health care.
The documentary highlighted the slum's living conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Housing Quality
Associated with makeshift or poorly constructed homes that may be unsafe.
The earthquake devastated the poorly built slum houses.
Pro Tip 1/3Urban Poverty
Refers to impoverished areas in a city, indicating extreme poverty and crowded living.
International charities aim to improve life in urban slums.
Pro Tip 2/3Living Conditions
Implies inadequate access to services like clean water, sanitation, and health care.
The documentary highlighted the slum's living conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Housing Quality
Associated with makeshift or poorly constructed homes that may be unsafe.
The earthquake devastated the poorly built slum houses.
Pro Tip 1/3Urban Poverty
Refers to impoverished areas in a city, indicating extreme poverty and crowded living.
International charities aim to improve life in urban slums.
Pro Tip 2/3Living Conditions
Implies inadequate access to services like clean water, sanitation, and health care.
The documentary highlighted the slum's living conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Housing Quality
Associated with makeshift or poorly constructed homes that may be unsafe.
The earthquake devastated the poorly built slum houses.
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Depression, the secret...
And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C., where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression, and then provided six months of the experimental protocol. One of them, Lolly, came in, and this is what she said the day she came in.
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How photography connects...
photographer came to me and said we need to document this and here's my here's my proposal let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world and I said well you know that might be a bit ambitious for our budget so instead what we did was we decided to instead of going out and doing what
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Michael Green: Why we...
Now, one in three people living in cities today actually live in a slum. That's one billion people in the world live in slums. A hundred million people in the world are homeless. The scale of the challenge for architects and for society to deal with in building
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James Kunstler: How bad...
There are a lot of ways you can describe this. You know, I like to call it "the national automobile slum." You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
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How the coronavirus...
India's of the world and there you have the problems I described except these countries or cash poor budgets trained in budget terms have poor health care systems and have a lot of overcrowding I mean think about the slums of a place
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Let's put birth control...
And I spoke with this women's group that's pictured here. And the women talked very openly about their family life in the slums, what it was like. And they talked quite intimately about what they did for birth control.
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What if the poor were...
as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live? In most cities, they live in slums.
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What forgiveness can...
too often we get stuck because these beliefs and worldviews become invisible to us unconscious when I moved into the slums of Kibera I forgot my parents worries my country's
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Living Among the Dead PIPE...
it may be creepy but it's also quiet and safe particularly when compared to the slums of Manila where squalor and drugs are part of daily life
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Macaque Monkeys at War PIPE...
the females if the slum Dogz catch her alone they'll show no mercy Hector and his foot soldiers rush forward they're hoping to hold off the
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Depression, the secret...
And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C., where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression, and then provided six months of the experimental protocol. One of them, Lolly, came in, and this is what she said the day she came in.
Video examples
How photography connects...
photographer came to me and said we need to document this and here's my here's my proposal let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world and I said well you know that might be a bit ambitious for our budget so instead what we did was we decided to instead of going out and doing what
Video examples
Michael Green: Why we...
Now, one in three people living in cities today actually live in a slum. That's one billion people in the world live in slums. A hundred million people in the world are homeless. The scale of the challenge for architects and for society to deal with in building
Video examples
James Kunstler: How bad...
There are a lot of ways you can describe this. You know, I like to call it "the national automobile slum." You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
Video examples
How the coronavirus...
India's of the world and there you have the problems I described except these countries or cash poor budgets trained in budget terms have poor health care systems and have a lot of overcrowding I mean think about the slums of a place
Video examples
Let's put birth control...
And I spoke with this women's group that's pictured here. And the women talked very openly about their family life in the slums, what it was like. And they talked quite intimately about what they did for birth control.
Video examples
What if the poor were...
as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live? In most cities, they live in slums.
Video examples
What forgiveness can...
too often we get stuck because these beliefs and worldviews become invisible to us unconscious when I moved into the slums of Kibera I forgot my parents worries my country's
Video examples
Living Among the Dead PIPE...
it may be creepy but it's also quiet and safe particularly when compared to the slums of Manila where squalor and drugs are part of daily life
Video examples
Macaque Monkeys at War PIPE...
the females if the slum Dogz catch her alone they'll show no mercy Hector and his foot soldiers rush forward they're hoping to hold off the
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Quote examples
Jos Buttler
English Athlete
But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
American Musician
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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Frank McCourt
Irish Author
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.
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Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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Nick McDonell
American Writer
Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
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Ory Okolloh
Kenyan Activist
I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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Tee Grizzley
American Musician
When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.
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Vetrimaaran
Indian Director
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
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Jos Buttler
English Athlete
But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.
Quote examples
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American Psychologist
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
Quote examples
Oscar Hammerstein II
American Musician
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Quote examples
Frank McCourt
Irish Author
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Quote examples
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.
Quote examples
Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
Quote examples
Nick McDonell
American Writer
Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
Quote examples
Ory Okolloh
Kenyan Activist
I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
Quote examples
Tee Grizzley
American Musician
When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.
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Vetrimaaran
Indian Director
Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.
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