What is another word for Shanties?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈantɪz] (IPA)

Shanties are small, humble abodes typically constructed from basic materials like timber and metal scraps. Synonyms for the word "shanties" include huts, cabins, makeshift houses, shacks, and lean-tos. These structures are often associated with poverty and homelessness, but they can also be found in rustic or remote areas as a way of living off the grid or as a temporary lodging solution. Despite their humble nature, shanties can hold great cultural significance, as evidenced by the historic favelas in Brazil or the fishing villages along the coast of Maine. Ultimately, regardless of their synonym, shanties serve as a testament to the human instinct to create shelter in even the most challenging of circumstances.

Synonyms for Shanties:

What are the hypernyms for Shanties?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    folk songs, work songs, traditional songs.

Usage examples for Shanties

Keswick has Skiddaw almost entirely to itself, and on the matter of routes it will be enough to say that by the back of Latrigg and the gingerbeer Shanties is the easiest way, and by Millbeck and Carlside is the shortest and quickest, being made up of two miles of good road and of two of steep fell as against five miles of easy hillside.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
While the colony had nothing better than log cabins or cloth Shanties, "there was no destitution," though there might be no luxury.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Few of the men who entered the Shanties could say that they had had much to do with Cameron and his son, except John Ross and the Morrison boys, who occasionally dropped into McNab's.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard

Related words: shantytowns, shanty towns, shanty, shanties in the wind

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