SQUALOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squalor mean? 

• SQUALOR (noun)
  The noun SQUALOR has 1 sense:

1. sordid dirtiness

  Familiarity information: SQUALOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUALOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sordid dirtiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

sordidness; squalidness; squalor

Hypernyms ("squalor" is a kind of...):

dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)

 Context examples 

Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)