Slum vs Shantytowns - What's the difference?
slum | shantytowns |
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.
As nouns the difference between slum and shantytowns
is that slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty while shantytowns is .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.
