shanties

Meaning of shanties

plural noun

a small, crudely built shack.

early 19th century (originally a North American usage): perhaps from Canadian French chantier ‘lumberjack's cabin, logging camp’.

plural noun

a song with alternating solo and chorus, of a kind originally sung by sailors while performing physical labour together.

mid 19th century: probably from French chantez! ‘sing!’, imperative plural of chanter .

Information about shanties

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of shanties is: shanty.
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Hyphenation of shanties

shanties

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • shanties is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shanties synonyms

Meaning a roughly built hut or cabin:

shack

Meaning a small, simple, single-storey house or shelter:

hut

Meaning a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area:

cabin

Meaning a simple roofed structure used for garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a workshop:

shed

Meaning an open shed or outhouse, used for sheltering cattle or storing grain or tools:

hovel

Meaning (in Scotland) a small hut or cottage, especially one for housing farm labourers or for use as a mountain refuge:

bothy

Meaning a roughly constructed hut used while pasturing animals:

shieling

Meaning a sloping position or movement:

tilt

Meaning a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum:

favela

Meaning a matter, operation, or set of circumstances:

shebang

Anagrams of shanties

anthesis, sheitans, Sthenias, sthenias

Words that rhyme with shanties

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