What is another word for shanty?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈanti] (IPA)

Shanty is a word that refers to a small, makeshift house or dwelling, usually constructed with basic materials such as wood, tin or thatch. However, there are several other synonyms for the term "shanty" that can be used interchangeably. Some popular alternatives include cabin, hut, cottage, shack, lean-to, and dugout. Another synonym for shanty, especially in coastal areas, is a "beach house" or a "coastal cottage". While each term has its distinct connotations, they all refer to a humble dwelling that is often characterized by its simplicity, compact size and rural location. Using these synonyms for shanty can help add variety to your writing and make your descriptions more evocative.

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    • Noun, singular or mass
      slum, tin.

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Usage examples for Shanty

"Quite," declared Gordon, and there was, for a moment or two, an almost uncomfortable silence in the shanty.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Then another voice rose from the shanty.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Nasmyth turned and went into the shanty, conscious that it would cost him an effort to get out of it again.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton

Famous quotes with Shanty

  • If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It had been the winter of 1835-6 that the ship, Alert, in her voyage for hides on the remote and almost unknown coast of California, floated into the vast solitude of the bay of San Francisco. All around was the stillness of nature. One vessel, a Russian, lay at anchor there, but during our whole stay not a sail came or went. Our trade was with remote missions, which sent hides to us in launches manned by their Indians... Over a region far beyond our sight there was no other human habitations, expect that an enterprising Yankee, years in advance of his time, had put up, on the rising ground above the landing, a shanty of rough boards, where he carried on a very small retail trade between the hide ships and the Indians. On the evening of Saturday, the thirteenth of August, 1859 (I again sailed into) the entrance to San Francisco, (now) the great center of worldwide commerce.
    Richard Henry Dana
  • She thought of the multitude. Trillions of human beings, wrappend like a fog about their home star. The mind collapsed at the scale and the numbers. But if ethics meant anything at all, it meant not letting the largeness of the human population overwhelm our moral knowledge that life is lived individually, and that even when agglomerated into billions and trillions individual human beings deserve better han being used as tools. That the overwhelming majority of this vast mass of humanity was poor, living precariously and subsistence lives in leaky shanty bubbles, eating ghunk and drinking recycled water—this made this more, not less, true. These were the people least able to help themselves. Thery should be helped, not exploited.
    Adam Roberts

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