单词	shantytowns
释义	shantytown noun shan·​ty·​town ˈshan-tē-ˌtau̇n  : a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of shanties Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web An underread masterpiece, Texaco traces the development of its titular shantytown in Martinique. The Week Staff, The Week, 22 Aug. 2022 Ironically, the soothingly authentic image that prompts Gibson to loosen his tie, the ungoverned shantytown Kowloon Walled City, was dismantled later that year. Jerrine Tan, Wired, 4 Aug. 2022 In Barrio Padre Mugica, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, his Freedom Advances coalition drew as much as 17.2 percent support last year. Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022 The nation’s first public housing project was Techwood Homes near downtown, built to replace a massive shantytown just off the Georgia Tech campus. Alan Judd, ajc, 30 Oct. 2017 Angela was now living in Mariano Matamoros, an eastern Tijuana shantytown with higher aspirations than her old neighborhood. San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022 By the spring of 1991, the shantytown had indeed been resurrected, and officials ordered the park cleared again, this time vacating it of close to 200 people and closing it down for a $2.3 million renovation during a recession. New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022 The Tiwaris live in suburban Mumbai, in the hillside shantytown of Surya Nagar, and their relatives were perched in one of a row of single-room tenements atop the steep terrain. Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2022 The naturalistic action takes place at an arts center that Ayouch co-founded in Casablanca’s sprawling shantytown Sidi Moumen. Alissa Simon, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 1876, in the meaning defined above shantytowns noun plural of shantytown as in favelas a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance favelas jungles encampments Hoovervilles bivouacs campsites campgrounds canvasses camps hutments settlements plantations canvases barracks cantonments colonies installations tentages leaguers laagers posts
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