Čo znamená slum v angličtine a aká je definícia slum?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť slum výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

slum Význam & definícia

0 a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city:
- an inner-city slum
- She was brought up in the slums of Lima.
- This house would be an absolute slum if I wasn't here to clean it.
1 to spend time in conditions that are much less good than the standard that you are used to:
- We ran out of money on holiday and had to slum it in cheap hostels.
2 a very poor and crowded area of a city:
- She works with children in a rough New Jersey slum.
3 to visit a slum, or to work doing something that is not suitable:
- Did you feel you were slumming by writing this kind of popular fiction?

The author mistakes occasional cultural ' slumming ' for emergent elite celebration.
We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people.
No use, for instance, is made of the 1901 census returns which would have exposed the problems of poverty and slums.
The often-cited, inferior quality of 'spec-built' housing (sometimes turning into slums) has been a constant complaint.
However, clear ownership of the land they occupy ensures the absence of the eviction trauma affecting the inner-city slums.
The reader probably needs no introduction to the phenomenon of ' slums ', or informal settlements.
There were too few ' structures which authentically represent the aspirations ' of workers, campesinos, and pobladores in urban slums.
Clearly, the decline and destruction of working-class communities, slums or ethnic neighbourhoods is an international tale, as the research from other places shows.