Shantytown
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
"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."
- 2 a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From shanty + town.
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