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shantytown in Italian

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

shantytown in Italian

baraccopoli
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 Italian?
"shantytown" in Italian is baraccopoli. shantytown means: A district made up of huts, shacks and other rough, makeshift homes.
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