slum

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, derogatory) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
2. (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
2. (UK, dated, intransitive, slang) To saunter about in a disreputable manner.

Conceptos

barrio bajo

barrio

barrio pobre

casucha

barrio de chabolas

pueblo joven

barrio marginal

barriada de emergencia

barrio periférico

colonia proletaria

colonia de paracaidistas

cantegril

población callampa

barriada

barrios

asentamiento

villa miseria

ciudad perdida

barrio de tugurios

pueblo nuevo

barriada bruja

Sinónimos

ghetto

shantytown

shanty town

back street

slum area

hovel

inner city

new town

quarter

rookery

shack

shanty

informal settlements

part of town

skid row

alley house

rear tenement

area in decline

decayed area

rotten place

informal settlement

squatter settlement

skid road

city district

mean alley

crowded

den

district

dump

Traducciones

favela

Elendsviertel

bidonville

taudis

Slum

achterbuurt

bidonville

kenar mahalle

φτωχογειτονιά

quartiere povero

sloppenwijk

Armenviertel

Marginalsiedlung

bas fonds

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/slʌm/

Etimología (Inglés)

First attested in 1812. originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom", of unknown origin.