Plural of shanty

Forms of shanty

Shanties in a sentence

• He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428
• Large shanties at staging grounds in the woods included bunkhouses holding one to three dozen men, so not all shanties were small.2000, Craig A. Gilborn, Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950, page 51
• The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20. From the entry ransackle
• He captured the contrast between the tanners’ workshops and shanties flanking the Dâmbovița and the imposing public buildings recently erected nearby.2013, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, “Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers”, in Micheline Nilsen…. From the entry Dâmbovița
• Here, we compare waulking songs and shanties to see how they operated in bringing women and men, respectively, into a sense of close alignment.2013, Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 97. From the entry waulk

Meaning of shanty

1. noun A roughly-built hut or cabin.
2. noun A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
3. noun An unlicensed pub.

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Questions about the plural of shanty

What is the plural of shanty?

The plural of shanty is shanties.

Is shanty countable?

Shanty is a countable noun.