English Dictionary

slum

IPA（発音記号）

/slʌm/

名詞

可算名詞 俗語 不可算名詞

(countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty. / (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

日本語の意味

（名詞）多くの人々が貧困状態で生活する、荒廃した住宅街（スラム街） / （俗語）カーニバルなどで賞品として提供される安価な小物やおもちゃ

She volunteered every weekend at a small clinic located in the city's oldest slum, offering basic medical care to families who could not afford treatment.

彼女は毎週末、街で最も古いスラム街にある小さな診療所でボランティアをして、治療を受けられない家族に基本的な医療を提供していた。

意味（1）

(countable) 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 […]

意味（2）

(slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

The lower the price of slum the better it is for the operator who can either give more of it out or build up the size of his big prizes. It is the big prizes that bring the play, even though the winner has to be satisfied with a piece of slum for his efforts.

slums （ plural ）