2. Verb. (third-person singular of slum) ¹
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Definition of Slums
1. slum [v] - See also: slum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slums
Literary usage of Slums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japan, Real and Imaginary by Sydney Greenbie (1920)
"XXII WHERE slums ARE slums the back alleys in Japan are invariably clean and
sanitary." So wrote an American woman tourist for a magazine published by and ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1895)
"THE REDEMPTION OF THE slums. THEEE are those who are disposed to take a gloomy
view of the future of Christianity. To our mind there never was a better ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"THE PROBLEM OF THE slums. THE century was still in its earliest years when Robert
... When we look to the slums of our great cities—to London, to Liverpool, ..."
4. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"In slums the common spaces—halls, streets, and parks—are considered part of the
living space and are extensively and intensively used for social ..."
5. Poems by Walter Malone (1904)
"THE SWAN OF THE slums. ALONE in the depths of the grimy town I hasten along as
the sun goes down; Strange jargons I hear, strange faces I meet In the motley ..."
6. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"NOT the least surprising experience of one who has learned to know the slums in
every aspect is the flat denial of most New Yorkers that they exist save in ..."
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