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Slum vs Squalid - What's the difference?

slum | squalid |

As nouns the difference between slum and squalid

is that slum is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty while squalid is (zoology) any member of the squalidae.

As a verb slum

is to visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

As an adjective squalid is

extremely dirty and unpleasant.

slum

English

(wikipedia slum)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
    • 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 [...].
  • :*Charles Dickens, Gambling .

    • Derived terms

    * slumdog * slumdom

    Related terms

    * ghetto * Hell's Kitchen * shantytown

    Verb

    (slumm)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

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    squalid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
  • Showing a contemptible lack of moral standards.
    • A squalid attempt to buy votes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Squalidae.
  • * 2008 , David A. Ebert, James A. Sulikowski, Biology of Skates (page 126)
    • Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods