Slum vs Saum - What's the difference?
slum | saum |
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
:*Charles Dickens,
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.
(Islam) fasting; one of the five pillars of Islam
In ecology, a herbaceous border found at the edge of a woodland patch. It is usually found below and farther out from the woodland than the woody shrub mantel'' and the tree canopy. (See R.T.T.Forman and Michel Godron. ''Landscape Ecology. 1986. pp. 108-109.)
As nouns the difference between slum and saum
is that slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty while saum is fasting; one of the five pillars of Islam.As a verb slum
is to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.slum
English
(wikipedia slum)Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
Gambling.
