Associations to the word «Shantytown»

Wiktionary

SHANTYTOWN, noun. An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

Dictionary definition

SHANTYTOWN, noun. A city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope