shantytown
See also: shanty town
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
shantytown (plural shantytowns)
- An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
- 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 173:
- The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.
Synonyms edit
- (area containing a collection of shacks): Hooverville, slum
Translations edit
area containing a collection of shacks and shanties
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