slumming
slumming is the present participle and gerund of slum.
Meaning of slum
Verb
slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)
- To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
- The princess goes slumming.1953, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Roman Holiday, spoken by Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert)
- To saunter about in a disreputable manner.
Noun
slumming (countable and uncountable, plural slummings)
- A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
- 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.1933, Dylan Thomas, From a Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry - 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 […]1942, Opera News, volume 7, page 26
- Few understand the works of Cummings,
Forms of slumming
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Phrases with slumming
Questions about slumming
- What does slumming mean?
- Slumming means a period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
- What is slumming the present participle and gerund of?
- Slumming is the present participle and gerund of slum.
- What part of speech is slumming?
- Slumming is a noun.
- What is the plural of slumming?
- The plural of slumming is slummings.
Words near slumming in the dictionary
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