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A slum; the poor and disreputable portion of a town.
adj
Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
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A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
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(informal) A dilapidated area of a city where many people live in a state of poverty and in which crime is more common than in other portions of the city.
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The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing
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(Venezuela, Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
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A shantytown or slum, in French-speaking regions.
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(UK, specifically) one designated as such by the former Countryside Commission.
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(anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
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A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil
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(rare) A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
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The home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks.
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Obsolete form of hibernacle. [A winter retreat; winter quarters.]
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(India) An urban slum of tents or makeshift huts.
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In Haiti, a small village or other compound built around a shared yard, or the family structure of those living in such a settlement.
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(archaic, figuratively) A hospital or lazaret for quarantining patients suffering highly infectious diseases.
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(obsolete) A neck of land.
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Someone who lives off the grid.
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A settlement built by a colliery owner to house the workers.
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(neologism) slum tourism; recreational visits to impoverished areas
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(slang, historical) The small and mostly short-lived B-movie studios in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s, many of them near what is now Gower Street.
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(South Africa) A person who lives in a shack.
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(South Africa) An unofficial urban settlement composed of shacks.
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A nickname sometimes given to the slum area of town in the Southern United States.
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An area, such as a suburb, consisting of mean, roughly-constructed dwellings inhabited by poor people.
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An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
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(Britain) A council estate characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation, often associated with high crime rates.
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Alternative spelling of skid row [(derogatory) An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.]
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(countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
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Alternative form of slumdweller. [Someone who lives (dwells) in a slum.]
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To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
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In India, a person who lives in the slums of cities.
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Someone who lives (dwells) in a slum.
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The decay of urban areas into slums.
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(derogatory) A person who makes money by renting housing that is kept in poor condition.
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Alternative form of slumism [The decay of urban areas into slums.]
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The realm or sphere of squatters.
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(obsolete, dialect) The houseleek.
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(idiomatic) The part of town that is not inhabited by the wealthy. An area where the working class, poor or extremely poor live.
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The phenomenon of having a lot of sold but uninhabited housing.
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