What does slumming mean?
Slumming means present participle and gerund of slum.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of slum.
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 […]
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Slumming means present participle and gerund of slum.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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