Suburb vs Shantytown - What's the difference?
suburb | shantytown |
The area on the periphery of a city or large town.
* Hallam
(by extension) The outer part; the environment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Milton
(AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
As nouns the difference between suburb and shantytown
is that suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town while shantytown is an area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings(jump).suburb
English
Noun
(en noun)- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
- the suburbs of sorrow
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel