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shantytown

English

Alternative forms

  • shanty town

Etymology

shanty +? town

Noun

shantytown (plural shantytowns)

  1. An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
    • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, Vintage Books N.Y., p. 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

  • (area containing a collection of shacks): Hooverville, slum

Translations

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slums

English

Noun

slums

  1. plural of slum

Verb

slums

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slum

Polish

Etymology

From English slums.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slams/

Noun

slums m inan

  1. slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

Declension

Further reading

  • slums in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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