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shantytown in Dutch

shantytown in Dutch is sloppenwijk — shantytown means a district made up of huts, shacks and other rough, makeshift homes.

shantytown in Dutch

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

What does "shantytown" mean?

  1. noun A district made up of huts, shacks and other rough, makeshift homes.
    "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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shantytown in a sentence

  • 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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What is "shantytown" in Dutch?
"shantytown" in Dutch is sloppenwijk. shantytown means: A district made up of huts, shacks and other rough, makeshift homes.
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