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" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
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Translations
26 translations across 16 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- barri de barraques noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 棚戶區 /棚户区 noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Dutch
1 entries- sloppenwijk noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Esperanto
1 entries- kvartalaĉo noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Estonian
1 entries- pilpaküla noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Finnish
2 entries- hökkelikaupunki noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- hökkelikylä noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
French
1 entries- bidonville noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
German
4 entries- Barackenstadt noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- Elendsviertel noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- Informelle Siedlung noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- Marginalsiedlung noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Greek
1 entries- παραγκούπολη noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Icelandic
1 entries- kofaþorp noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Italian
1 entries- baraccopoli noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Māori
1 entries- kuha papa kāinga noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Portuguese
3 entries- bairro de lata noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- favela noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- musseque noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Spanish
1 entries- villa miseria noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Swedish
1 entries- kåkstad noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
Turkish
4 entries- gecekondu bölgesi noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- gecekondu mahallesi noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- kenar mahalle noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
- varoş noun (area containing a collection of shacks and shanties)
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