shantytown
IPA: ʃˈæntitaʊn
noun
- An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
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Examples of "shantytown" in Sentences
- This area once was a shantytown.
- In the story Sooky lives in a shantytown.
- The shantytown example consists of about 120 elements.
- The Joads continue on to a Hooverville a squalid shantytown.
- The estern all area was turned into a shantytown and rubbish tip.
- A shantytown grew in the west end of the city along the Mississippi River.
- A recreation of an early New Zealand settlement can be found at Shantytown.
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