shantytownnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃæn.ti.taʊn/us/ˈʃæn.t̬i.taʊn/an area in or on the edge of a city, in which poor people live in small, very cheaply built houses
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities
- arrondissement
- backstreets
- barrio
- block
- botanic garden
- concrete jungle
- council estate
- dormitory suburb
- estate
- exurb
- ghetto
- precinct
- red-light district
- slum
- suburbia
- the outskirts
- the wrong/other side of the tracks idiom
- town
- trading estate
- warren
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