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Hooverville

noun

Definition of Hoovervillenext
as in shantytown

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Recent Examples of Hooverville Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes. — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Hooverville
  1. shantytown
  2. jungle
  3. encampment
  4. favela
Noun
  • Deep Cut, the ragtag band from previous Splatoon titles, has cobbled together a shantytown at sea, which serves as homebase.
    — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
Definition of shantytown
Noun
  • Netflix documentary The Lost Children tells the almost unbelievable tale of four children stranded after a plane crash in the jungles of Colombia.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
  • That prompted hundreds of thousands to walk through the Darien Gap, a jungle in Panama and Colombia, on a grueling journey through at least eight countries.
    — Elliot Spagat, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of jungle
Noun
  • Service learned the holdup was due to the site in question also being considered a homeless encampment.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • No known encampments were recorded in downtown Pittsburgh at the end of August.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of encampment
Noun
  • He was raised in Restinga, a favela on the outskirts of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
    — Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The film will adapt one of the most powerful segments of the play, addressing the real case of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, a ten-year-old boy killed on April 2, 2015, in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro.
    — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of favela

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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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