Bible Dictionaries
Slum

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Same as Slimes.

(2):

(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; - usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

(3):

(v. i.) To visit or frequent slums, esp. out of curiosity, or for purposes of study, etc.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Slum'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/slum.html. 1828.