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.
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Shantytown
Synonyms for "shantytown" (9 found)
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7 entrieshut settlementinformal settlement blockshack villageshanty campshantytown beltslum clustertent city
Collocations
5 entriesshantytown areashantytown developmentshantytown dwellersshantytown expansionshantytown residents
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesshanty townshantytownish
Sample sentences
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