shantytown
noun
shan·ty·town
ˈshan-tē-ˌtau̇n 
: a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of shanties
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Alessandro Da Fonseca was an amiable guy in his twenties who’d recently emigrated from a shantytown district of Rio de Janeiro.
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Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
This little rough and ready shantytown takes design cues from a handful of the major settlements in the 3-D Fallout games, most notably Fallout 3’s Megaton, though there’s a touch of Fallout 4’s Diamond City, too.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of rural Iranians, displaced by land reform, swelled the country’s cities, many of them settling in slums and shantytowns.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
This little rough and ready shantytown takes design cues from a handful of the major settlements in the 3-D Fallout games, most notably Fallout 3’s Megaton, though there’s a touch of Fallout 4’s Diamond City, too.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of rural Iranians, displaced by land reform, swelled the country’s cities, many of them settling in slums and shantytowns.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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shantytown
noun
shan·ty·town
-ˌtau̇n
: a usually poor town or section of a town made up mostly of shanties
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