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Slum vs Slumlike - What's the difference?

slum | slumlike |

As a noun slum

is a dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

As a verb slum

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

As an adjective slumlike is

resembling a slum; squalid.

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

    *

    slumlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a slum; squalid.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 6, author=Brooks Barnes, title=Lord of ‘Rings’ to Pay First Visit to Comic-Con, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“District 9,” starring a cast of unknowns, is about an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slumlike conditions on Earth. }}