Shanty Townとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shanty town (複数形 shanty towns)

1. An area, such as a suburb, consisting of mean, roughly-constructed dwellings inhabited by poor people.
   • 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:

     The navvies of the Midland Railway toiled for years to build it, enduring grim conditions in shanty towns that were built miles from civilisation. But build it they did, to form part of the Midland's main line between London St Pancras and Carlisle via Sheffield and Leeds from 1876.

参照

• “shanty town” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

語源

shanty +‎ town

名詞

shantytown (複数形 shantytowns)

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

同意語

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