Shanty
noun
A small, poorly built house, often one made of cheap or recycled materials.
Many people in impoverished areas live in shanties.
Often appears as...
- shanty town
- shanty house
noun
A song sung by sailors while working.
The sailors sang a lively shanty as they hoisted the sails.
Often appears as...
- sailor's shanty
- sea shanty
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noun
A small, poorly built house, often one made of cheap or recycled materials.
Many people in impoverished areas live in shanties.
Often appears as...
- shanty town
- shanty house
noun
A song sung by sailors while working.
The sailors sang a lively shanty as they hoisted the sails.
Often appears as...
- sailor's shanty
- sea shanty
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Indicator
Implies extreme poverty and inadequate living conditions.
She grew up in a shanty without running water.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depiction
Often associated with slums in historical or cultural contexts.
The film depicted the shanties of the Great Depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Nature
Used for makeshift or temporary housing solutions.
After the disaster, survivors lived in shanties.
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Indicator
Implies extreme poverty and inadequate living conditions.
She grew up in a shanty without running water.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depiction
Often associated with slums in historical or cultural contexts.
The film depicted the shanties of the Great Depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Nature
Used for makeshift or temporary housing solutions.
After the disaster, survivors lived in shanties.
Pro Tip 1/3Poverty Indicator
Implies extreme poverty and inadequate living conditions.
She grew up in a shanty without running water.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Depiction
Often associated with slums in historical or cultural contexts.
The film depicted the shanties of the Great Depression.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Nature
Used for makeshift or temporary housing solutions.
After the disaster, survivors lived in shanties.
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Jacqueline Novogratz on...
And then they match her mortgage to what she paid in rent for her little shanty. And in the next couple of weeks, she's going to be among the first 200 families to move into this development. When I asked her if she feared anything, or whether she would miss anything from Mathare,
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Chris Anderson: How...
years might be sharing the idea that keeps the world beautiful for your grandchildren it's not crazy it's actually happening right now want to introduce you to a good friend of Ted who just happens to live in Africa's biggest shanty town hi my name is
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Robert Neuwirth: The...
'you can stay for the rest of your life.'" So, he has hope, and this is where these communities start. This is perhaps the most primitive shanty that you can find in Kibera, little more than a stick-and-mud hut next to a garbage heap.
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Art and architecture...
is speculative and it's fantastic coal and it's about world building but still grounded in a lot of contemporary issues a project that I've been working on recently that is going to be ongoing it's my shanty megastructures for Lagos
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Willard Wigan: Hold your...
So I did. And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood. And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass, constructed this little apartment. Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.
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Five Pirate Myths That...
when fresh water was a rare commodity and rum was the drink of choice things were bound to get a little wild drunk pirates need to be entertained so many pirate ships had full time bands to play shanties and even had theaters on
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Who belongs in a city? PIPE...
After all, what is a slum besides an organic response to acute housing deficits and income inequality? And what is a shanty if not a person making a home for themselves against all odds? Slums are an imperfect housing solution,
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How Scientists and...
Pachacamac is a huge archaeological site south of Lima. Around it we have three million people living in shanty towns, in one of the poorest sectors of Lima,
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Context determines...
that chair is a song to an enemy but it's not that why is it a song to our enemy what you see behind in the fixes those are the ancient a shanty gold with
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Locked Up in Venezuela...
it was like hectic everywhere in the mountains you can see these shanty houses that was just horrendous I've not seen that in my life and I thought
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Jacqueline Novogratz on...
And then they match her mortgage to what she paid in rent for her little shanty. And in the next couple of weeks, she's going to be among the first 200 families to move into this development. When I asked her if she feared anything, or whether she would miss anything from Mathare,
Video examples
Chris Anderson: How...
years might be sharing the idea that keeps the world beautiful for your grandchildren it's not crazy it's actually happening right now want to introduce you to a good friend of Ted who just happens to live in Africa's biggest shanty town hi my name is
Video examples
Robert Neuwirth: The...
'you can stay for the rest of your life.'" So, he has hope, and this is where these communities start. This is perhaps the most primitive shanty that you can find in Kibera, little more than a stick-and-mud hut next to a garbage heap.
Video examples
Art and architecture...
is speculative and it's fantastic coal and it's about world building but still grounded in a lot of contemporary issues a project that I've been working on recently that is going to be ongoing it's my shanty megastructures for Lagos
Video examples
Willard Wigan: Hold your...
So I did. And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood. And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass, constructed this little apartment. Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.
Video examples
Five Pirate Myths That...
when fresh water was a rare commodity and rum was the drink of choice things were bound to get a little wild drunk pirates need to be entertained so many pirate ships had full time bands to play shanties and even had theaters on
Video examples
Who belongs in a city? PIPE...
After all, what is a slum besides an organic response to acute housing deficits and income inequality? And what is a shanty if not a person making a home for themselves against all odds? Slums are an imperfect housing solution,
Video examples
How Scientists and...
Pachacamac is a huge archaeological site south of Lima. Around it we have three million people living in shanty towns, in one of the poorest sectors of Lima,
Video examples
Context determines...
that chair is a song to an enemy but it's not that why is it a song to our enemy what you see behind in the fixes those are the ancient a shanty gold with
Video examples
Locked Up in Venezuela...
it was like hectic everywhere in the mountains you can see these shanty houses that was just horrendous I've not seen that in my life and I thought
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Hozier
Irish Musician
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.
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Rory O'Malley
American Actor
My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.
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W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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Maxine Peake
English Actress
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
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Hozier
Irish Musician
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
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Brian McDermott
English Athlete
I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.
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Hozier
Irish Musician
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.
Quote examples
Rory O'Malley
American Actor
My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.
Quote examples
W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
Quote examples
Maxine Peake
English Actress
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
Quote examples
Hozier
Irish Musician
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
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Brian McDermott
English Athlete
I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.
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