slumming
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
Countable; Uncountable
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 […]"