English
Etymology
From shanty + town.
Noun
shantytown (plural shantytowns)
- An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 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
Translations
area containing a collection of shacks and shanties
- Catalan: barri de barraques m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 棚戶區 / 棚户区 (zh) (pénghùqū)
- Dutch: sloppenwijk (nl)
- Esperanto: kvartalaĉo
- Estonian: pilpaküla
- Finnish: hökkelikylä (fi), hökkelikaupunki
- French: bidonville (fr) f
- German: Informelle Siedlung, Marginalsiedlung, Barackenstadt (de), Elendsviertel (de), Slum (de)
- Greek: παραγκούπολη (el) f (paragkoúpoli)
- Icelandic: kofaþorp n
- Italian: baraccopoli (it) f
- Maori: kuha papa kāinga
- Portuguese: favela (pt) f (Brazil), bairro de lata (pt) m (Portugal), musseque (pt) m (Angola)
- Spanish: villa miseria (es) f
- Swedish: kåkstad (sv) c
- Turkish: kenar mahalle, gecekondu mahallesi, gecekondu bölgesi, varoş (tr)
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