The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.
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Slum
//slʌm//
Synonyms for "slum" (68 found)
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1 entriesmeronym
5 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
94 translations across 44 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِنْطَقَة عَشْوَائِيَّة noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Belarusian
1 entries- трушчо́ба noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Bengali
1 entries- বস্তি noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Bulgarian
1 entries- беден квартал noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 棚戶區 /棚户区 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 貧民區 /贫民区 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 貧民窟 /贫民窟 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Czech
1 entries- slum noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Danish
2 entries- slum noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- slumkvarter noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Dutch
2 entries- krottenwijk noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- sloppenwijk noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Esperanto
1 entries- kvartalaĉo noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Finnish
1 entries- slummi noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
French
1 entries- bidonville noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
German
3 entries- Armensiedlung noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- Elendsviertel noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- Slum noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Greek
2 entries- παραγκούπολη noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- φτωχογειτονιά noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Gujarati
1 entries- સ્લમ noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Hindi
2 entries- गंदी बस्ती noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- बस्ती noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyomornegyed noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Indonesian
2 entries- kawasan kumuh noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- kawasan papa noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Italian
2 entries- baraccopoli noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- bassofondo noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Japanese
3 entries- スラム noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 貧民窟 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 貧民街 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Khmer
1 entries- រោរព noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Korean
3 entries- 빈민가 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 빈민굴 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- 슬럼 noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Latvian
2 entries- grausti noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- grausts noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Lithuanian
1 entries- lūšnynas noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Macedonian
2 entries- слам noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- тенеќе-маало noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Malay
1 entries- setinggan noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Norwegian
1 entries- slum noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Occitan
1 entries- barri de barracas noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Persian
1 entries- زاغه noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Polish
1 entries- slums noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Portuguese
3 entries- bairro de lata noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- favela noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- musseque noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Romanian
2 entries- ghetou noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- mahala noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Russian
1 entries- трущо́ба noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Spanish
4 entries- asentamiento noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- asentamiento humano noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- barriada bruja noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- barriada de emergencia noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Swahili
1 entries- kitongoji duni noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Swedish
1 entries- slum noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Tamil
1 entries- சேரி noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Telugu
1 entries- మురికివాడ noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Thai
2 entries- ชุมชนแออัด noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- สลัม noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Turkish
3 entries- gecekondu bölgesi noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- gecekondu mahallesi noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- kenar mahalle noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Ukrainian
2 entries- не́трі noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- трущо́ба noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Urdu
1 entries- بستی noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Vietnamese
2 entries- khu ổ chuột noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- ổ chuột noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Volapük
4 entries- luharat noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- luslöm noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- pöfanaharat noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- slöm noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Yiddish
4 entries- אָרעמקייט־גאַס noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- אָרעמקייט־קוואַרטאַל noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- דלות־געגנט noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
- דלות־קוואַרטאַל noun (dilapidated neighborhood)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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The land became a slum.
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Tom lives in a slum.
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