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bidonvilles

bidonvilles is the plural of bidonville.

Meaning of bidonville

Noun

bidonville (plural bidonvilles)

  1. A shantytown or slum, in French-speaking regions.
    • With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.2012, Sarwant Singh, New Mega Trends: Implications for Our Future Lives, page 63

Questions about bidonvilles

What is bidonvilles the plural of?
Bidonvilles is the plural of bidonville.

Words near bidonvilles in the dictionary

  1. bidomain
  2. bidon
  3. bidone
  4. bidons
  5. bidonville
  6. bidonvilles
  7. Bidoon
  8. Bidoons
  9. bidoped
  10. bidoping
  11. bidorsal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bidonvilles (page history and authors); bidonville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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