slum

suomi-englanti sanakirja

slum englannista suomeksi

  1. slummi, köyhälistökortteli

  2. käydä slummeissa, köyhäillä

  1. slummi

  2. Substantiivi

slum englanniksi

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

  2. (syn)

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=1855|author=Charles Dickens|chapter=Gambling|chapterurl=http://books.google.it/books?id=S_BLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA338|title=Household Words|volume=31

  4. 1927-29, (w), ''(w)'', translated 1940 by (w), Part I, Chapter xvi:

  5. I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
  6. (quote-journal)

  7. (quote-book)|page=16|text=Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it was slums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to a ''pied à terre'' in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was a slum. Drury Lane? A slum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury? Slums.

  8. Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

  9. (quote-book)

  10. To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

  11. (quote-book)|year=1984|page=4|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/brightlightsbigc0000mcin/page/4/mode/1up|isbn=0394726413|passage=When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that you are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head.

  12. To saunter about in a disreputable manner.

  13. Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

  14. (cap); humbug.

  15. {{quote-text|en|year=1820|author=Thomas Moore; W. Simpkin; R. Marshall|title=Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius

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