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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
Use shanty town when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shanty town means An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings..
Common synonyms include Hooverville, slum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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