Slum

Noun

 * 1) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

Related terms

 * ghetto
 * Hell's Kitchen
 * shantytown

Verb

 * 1) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
 * 2) To associate with people or engage in activities with a status below one's own.

Thesaurus
Augean stables, Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, business district, central city, city center, core, downtown, dump, ghetto, greenbelt, hole, hovel, inner city, midtown, muck, outskirts, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, red-light district, residential district, rookery, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid, skid road, skid row, slab, slums, stable, stew, sty, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement, tenement district, the slums, uptown, urban blight, warren

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 貧民窟, 贫民窟,  棚戶區,  棚户区
 * French:
 * German: Slum
 * Hindi:, गंदी बस्ती
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: スラム, 貧民街,  貧民窟
 * Korean: 빈민굴
 * Norwegian: slum
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: трущоба
 * Spanish: barrio marginal, barrio pobre  ;  asentamiento  , barriada bruja  , barriada de emergencia  , barrio  , barrio de chabolas  , barrio periférico  , cantegril  , colonia de paracaidistas  , colonia proletaria  , ciudad perdida  , población callampa  , precario  , pueblo joven  , tugurio  , villa miseria  ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Urdu:

Anagrams

 * lums, UMLS