单词 | shanty town |
释义 | > as lemmasshanty town shanty town n. a suburb consisting of shanties, spec. a poor or depressed area of a city or town. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > shanty town shanty town1876 Hooverville1933 bidonville1955 favela1961 pueblo joven1969 kasi1988 1876 Potter's American Monthly Oct. 400/2 (caption) Shanty town. 1880 Daily Graphic (N.Y.) 4 Mar. 38 (caption) A scene in shantytown, New York. 1917 U. Sinclair King Coal 36 There's lots of people have boarders in shanty-town. 1946 V. Lincoln in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1952) 36 I found White Creek Row. It was the town's Hooverville..a tragic, shocking, sordid shanty town. 1954 H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness ii. vii. 121 By the end of 1871 over 10,000 diggers occupied the hot, corrugated iron shanty-town of Kimberley. 1980 Times 4 Jan. 6/5 The overpopulated [Turkish] cities are girdled with slummy shanty towns. < as lemmas |
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