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"word": "slumdog"
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"word": "slum dweller"
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{
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"word": "slumland"
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"word": "slumlike"
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{
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"word": "slumlord"
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{
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"word": "slummy"
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"word": "slum-ridden"
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"depth": 1,
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"2": "slum",
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"expansion": "→ Czech: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Czech: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "da",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Danish: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Danish: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "slummi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Finnish: slummi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Finnish: slummi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "slums",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: slums",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: slums"
},
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swedish: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swedish: slum"
}
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"name": "etydate"
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},
"expansion": "unknown",
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],
"etymology_text": "First attested in 1812. originally slang, in the sense \"room\", especially \"backroom\", of unknown origin.",
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"form": "slums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"args": {
"1": "~"
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"expansion": "slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)",
"name": "en-noun"
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"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "city"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "settlement"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "section of a town"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "Hooverville"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "rookery"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "building"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "flophouse"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "doss-house"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "tenement"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "street"
}
],
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "urban blight"
}
],
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1855, Charles Dickens, “Gambling”, in Household Words, volume 31",
"text": "Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi",
"text": "I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms."
},
{
"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703",
"text": "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 16",
"text": "Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it was slums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to a pied à terre in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was a slum. Drury Lane? A slum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury? Slums.",
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"glosses": [
"A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty."
],
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"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"dilapidated",
"dilapidated"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slum"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"derogatory"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "minṭaqa ʕašwāʔiyya",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مِنْطَقَة عَشْوَائِيَّة"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "truščóba",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "трушчо́ба"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bosti",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "বস্তি"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "beden kvartal",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "беден квартал"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民窟"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínmínkū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "贫民窟"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "棚戶區"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pénghùqū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "棚户区"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民區"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínmínqū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "贫民区"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "slumkvarter"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sloppenwijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "krottenwijk"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "kvartalaĉo"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "slummi"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bidonville"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Slum"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Elendsviertel"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Armensiedlung"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ftochogeitoniá",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φτωχογειτονιά"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paragkoúpoli",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παραγκούπολη"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bastī",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "बस्ती"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gandī bastī",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "गंदी बस्ती"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "nyomornegyed"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "kawasan kumuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bassofondo"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baraccopoli"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "suramu",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "スラム"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"alt": "ひんみんがい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hinmingai",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民街"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"alt": "ひんみんくつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hinminkutsu",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民窟"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "roorup",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "រោរព"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "binmin'ga",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "빈민가"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "binmin'gul",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "빈민굴"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seulleom",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "슬럼"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grausts"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "grausti"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "teneḱe-maalo",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "тенеќе-маало"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slam",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "слам"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "setinggan"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "barri de barracas"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "zâğe",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "زاغه"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slums"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"feminine"
],
"word": "favela"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bairro de lata"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Angola",
"masculine"
],
"word": "musseque"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mahala"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ghetou"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "truščóba",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "трущо́ба"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio marginal"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio pobre"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio bajo"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Guatemala",
"feminine",
"regional"
],
"word": "asentamiento"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Panama",
"feminine"
],
"word": "barriada bruja"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Panama",
"feminine"
],
"word": "barriada de emergencia"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Venezuela",
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Spain",
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio de chabolas"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Ecuador",
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrio periférico"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Uruguay",
"masculine"
],
"word": "cantegril"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"feminine"
],
"word": "colonia de paracaidistas"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"feminine"
],
"word": "colonia proletaria"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"feminine"
],
"word": "ciudad perdida"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"feminine"
],
"word": "población callampa"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Costa-Rica",
"masculine"
],
"word": "precario"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Peru",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pueblo joven"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Colombia",
"masculine"
],
"word": "tugurio"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"Argentina",
"Paraguay",
"feminine"
],
"word": "villa miseria"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "kitongoji duni"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "cēri",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "சேரி"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "murikivāḍa",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "మురికివాడ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chum-chon-ɛɛ-àt",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "ชุมชนแออัด"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 3",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sà-lam",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "สลัม"
},
{
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{
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"1": "m"
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"kind": "other",
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"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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"slum (dilapidated neighborhood)"
],
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"links": [
[
"slum",
"slum#English"
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],
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"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/slam/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-am"
}
],
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}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "slummen",
"tags": [
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slummar",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slummane",
"tags": [
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
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"source": "w"
}
],
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"a slum"
],
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"links": [
[
"slum",
"slum#English"
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],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "slum"
}
{
"forms": [
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"form": "inanimate",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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},
{
"form": "cs-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "slum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slumu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumů",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slumu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumům",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slume",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "slumy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "slumu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumech",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "slumem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "slumy",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m-in"
},
"expansion": "slum m inan",
"name": "cs-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"name": "cs-ndecl"
}
],
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"lang_code": "cs",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Czech 1-syllable words",
"Czech entries with incorrect language header",
"Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns",
"Czech inanimate nouns",
"Czech lemmas",
"Czech masculine inanimate nouns",
"Czech masculine nouns",
"Czech nouns",
"Czech terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Czech/am",
"Rhymes:Czech/am/1 syllable"
],
"glosses": [
"slum (dilapidated neighborhood)"
],
"links": [
[
"slum",
"slum#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/slam/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-am"
}
],
"word": "slum"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌm",
"Rhymes:English/ʌm/1 syllable",
"en:Meats",
"en:Places",
"en:Urban studies"
],
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{
"word": "slum cannon"
},
{
"word": "slumdog"
},
{
"word": "slumdom"
},
{
"word": "slum dweller"
},
{
"word": "slumdweller"
},
{
"word": "slumland"
},
{
"word": "slumlike"
},
{
"word": "slumlord"
},
{
"word": "slummer"
},
{
"word": "slummy"
},
{
"word": "slum-ridden"
}
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "cs",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Czech: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Czech: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Danish: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Danish: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fi",
"2": "slummi",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Finnish: slummi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Finnish: slummi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Norwegian Nynorsk: slum"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "slums",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: slums",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: slums"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "slum",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Swedish: slum",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Swedish: slum"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "1812"
},
"expansion": "1812",
"name": "etydate/the"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "1812"
},
"expansion": "First attested in 1812.",
"name": "etydate"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "slang"
},
"expansion": "slang",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "unknown",
"name": "unk"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First attested in 1812. originally slang, in the sense \"room\", especially \"backroom\", of unknown origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "slums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"holonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "city"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "settlement"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "section of a town"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "Hooverville"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "rookery"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"meronyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "building"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "flophouse"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "doss-house"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "tenement"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "street"
}
],
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "urban blight"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1855, Charles Dickens, “Gambling”, in Household Words, volume 31",
"text": "Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi",
"text": "I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms."
},
{
"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703",
"text": "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 16",
"text": "Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it was slums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to a pied à terre in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was a slum. Drury Lane? A slum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury? Slums.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"dilapidated",
"dilapidated"
],
[
"poverty",
"poverty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "slum"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"derogatory"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1956, Theron Fox, How to Make Money with Carnival Games, page 58",
"text": "The lower the price of slum the better it is for the operator who can either give more of it out or build up the size of his big prizes. It is the big prizes that bring the play, even though the winner has to be satisfied with a piece of slum for his efforts.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1976, Mary Carey, George Sherman, A compendium of bunk: or, How to spot a con artist",
"text": "Another hanky pank is the darts and balloons. No gaffs, no grift, nothing phoney. Game for the kids and the family. Get a dozen gross of slum and pass it out to the kids, and everybody'll love you.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes",
"text": "Making twenty times his investment in only seconds, the concessionaire smiled as he awarded the nickel slum, often a stuffed worm, to each unwitting pigeon.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game."
],
"links": [
[
"Inexpensive",
"inexpensive"
],
[
"trinket",
"trinket"
],
[
"prize",
"prize"
],
[
"carnival",
"carnival"
],
[
"game",
"game"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/slʌm/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌm"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-slum.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/37/En-us-slum.ogg/En-us-slum.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/En-us-slum.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"Dominican-Republic",
"Venezuela"
],
"word": "barrio"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "bad part of town"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "estate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
],
"word": "favela"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "ghetto"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "Hell's Kitchen"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "jects"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "projects"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "scheme"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "shantytown"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "sink estate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:slum",
"word": "slum"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "minṭaqa ʕašwāʔiyya",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "مِنْطَقَة عَشْوَائِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "truščóba",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "трушчо́ба"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "bosti",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "বস্তি"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "beden kvartal",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "беден квартал"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民窟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínmínkū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "贫民窟"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "棚戶區"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pénghùqū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "棚户区"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民區"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pínmínqū",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "贫民区"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "slumkvarter"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "slum"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sloppenwijk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "krottenwijk"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "kvartalaĉo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "slummi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bidonville"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Slum"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Elendsviertel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Armensiedlung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ftochogeitoniá",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "φτωχογειτονιά"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paragkoúpoli",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παραγκούπολη"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "bastī",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "बस्ती"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gandī bastī",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "गंदी बस्ती"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "nyomornegyed"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "kawasan kumuh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bassofondo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baraccopoli"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "suramu",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "スラム"
},
{
"alt": "ひんみんがい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hinmingai",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民街"
},
{
"alt": "ひんみんくつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hinminkutsu",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "貧民窟"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "roorup",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "រោរព"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "binmin'ga",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "빈민가"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "binmin'gul",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "빈민굴"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seulleom",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "슬럼"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grausts"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "grausti"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "teneḱe-maalo",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "тенеќе-маало"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slam",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "слам"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"word": "setinggan"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "dilapidated neighborhood",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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