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[ shan-tee-toun ] / ˈʃæn tiˌtaʊn /
nouna section, as of a city or town characterized by shanties and crudely built houses. a whole town or city that is chiefly made up of shantylike houses. Origin of shantytownFirst recorded in 1880–85; shanty1 + town Words nearby shantytownshantey, shanti, Shantou, Shantung, shanty, shantytown, Shanxi, Shaoxing, Shaoyang, shape, shaped Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shantytownThe smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev. My Walk Through Kiev's Maidan Square|Miranda Frum|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Shantytown, a crime novella first published in 1998, is the latest. This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 18, 2013|Thomas Flynn|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST Shantytown succeeds both as a compelling modern noir and a revealing depiction of life in the third world. This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 18, 2013|Thomas Flynn|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST In Shantytown, the titular slum of Buenos Aires is the backdrop for a series of killings that threaten the entire community. This Week’s Hot Reads: Nov. 18, 2013|Thomas Flynn|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Then one day on set, three slum girls came to watch the crew film in their shantytown. The Slumdog Stylist|Dale Hrabi|November 22, 2008|DAILY BEAST I came to my senses in one of the bedrooms of the Shantytown Hotel. The Blunders of a Bashful Man|Metta Victoria Fuller Victor Sure you're the sunshine of Mulligan Alley and the belle of Shantytown. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays|Walter Ben Hare She walked back across the freeway to the shantytown and ran into Hilda coming the other way. He snorted up damp lungsful of the tropical air and smelled dinners cooking at the shantytown across the street. Around him, a slow procession of stall-operators, with their arms full, headed for the freeway and across to the shantytown.
British Dictionary definitions for shantytown
nouna town or section of a town or city inhabited by very poor people living in shanties, esp in a developing country Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |