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.
a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
a contiguous settlement where the inhabitants are characterized as having inadequate housing and basic services
a residential area where the houses and conditions of life are of a squalid and wretched character and which hence has become a social liability to the community
a set of contiguous in tree order dirty nodes
a thickly populated, squalid part of a city, inhabited by the poorest of people
An overcrowded squalid or overcrowded neighbourhood
A part or section of a city or town generally inhabited by the very poor. Such an area is normally characterized by a large amount of deteriorated housing, poor public facilities, absentee ownership, and a high incidence of crime.
A slum is a poor neighborhood with many dwellings in bad repair.
A slum is a district of a city or town which is usually inhabited by the very poor or socially disadvantaged. Slums can be found in most large cities around the world. Though the terms are often now used interchangeably, slums and ghettos differ in that ghetto refers to a neighborhood based on shared ethnicity.