Slumming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Slumming is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of slum.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of slum.
More Meanings
- A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
Example Sentences
Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]
Word Forms
- slummings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include backslum, sluthood, slumdweller, sloppery, slumdog, slumlord.
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