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SHANTYTOWN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("shantytown" is a kind of...):
slum; slum area (a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions)