shantytown

See also: shanty town

English

Alternative forms

• shanty town

Etymology

From shanty +‎ town.

Noun

shantytown (plural shantytowns)

1. An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
   • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 173:

     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.

Synonyms

• (area containing a collection of shacks): Hooverville, slum

Translations

area containing a collection of shacks and shanties

• Catalan: barri de barraques m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棚戶區 / 棚户区 (zh) (pénghùqū)

• Dutch: sloppenwijk (nl)
• Esperanto: kvartalaĉo
• Estonian: pilpaküla
• Finnish: hökkelikylä (fi), hökkelikaupunki
• French: bidonville (fr) f
• German: Informelle Siedlung, Marginalsiedlung, Barackenstadt (de), Elendsviertel (de), Slum (de)
• Greek: παραγκούπολη (el) f (paragkoúpoli)
• Icelandic: kofaþorp n
• Italian: baraccopoli (it) f
• Maori: kuha papa kāinga
• Portuguese: favela (pt) f (Brazil), bairro de lata (pt) m (Portugal), musseque (pt) m (Angola)
• Spanish: villa miseria (es) f
• Swedish: kåkstad (sv) c
• Turkish: kenar mahalle, gecekondu mahallesi, gecekondu bölgesi, varoş (tr)