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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLUM , a squalid, dirty See also:

street or See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter in a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, See also:

TOWN

town or See also:

VILLAGE

village, inhabited by the very poor, destitute or criminal classes; over-crowding is frequently another characteristic (see See also:

HOUSING

HOUSING) . The word is a comparatively See also:

RECENT

recent one and is of uncertain origin . It has been doubtfully connected with a dialectal use of " slump " in the sense of a marshy, swampy See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place; cf . Ger . Schlamm, mud, and Eng. See also:

DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect slammock, slattern (See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat, Etym . Did., 1910) .

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