shantytown
nounEtymology
From shanty + town.
Definitions
An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
- 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.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA