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Meanings of
shanty
in inglês
português
choça
catalão
cabana
espanhol
chabola
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A small crude shelter used as a dwelling.
hut
shack
hovel
hutch
português
choça
A rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors.
chanty
chantey
sea chantey
Sinônimos
Examples for "
chanty
"
chanty
chantey
sea chantey
Examples for "
chanty
"
1
The
chanty
-
man
was a distinguished person whom it was impolitic to ignore.
2
Strike up any sort of sailor's
chanty
when we're in the restaurant.
3
After paying actual expenses, Mr. Stephen, however, handed the surplus to a
chanty
.
4
A Japanese tune rises like a sailors'
chanty
from the band.
5
For a quick pulling
chanty
we often use this one:
1
Why don't you sing a
chantey
over me, I want to know?
2
Gallowglass was crooning a sea
chantey
in the château's great hall.
3
Jessie could hear the gay lilt of the
chantey
that heralded their coming:
4
Young Jerry only was to be seen, sitting on the cabin step and singing the ancient
chantey
.
5
I struck up the first verse of a sailor
chantey
as possessing at least the interest of novelty:
1
Gallowglass was crooning a
sea
chantey
in the château's great hall.
2
"I don't remember," I replied; "it is a common enough deep-
sea
chantey
.
"
3
"Limber up and give us a good old deep-
sea
chantey
!
"
4
"Chesapeake Bay
sea
chanteys
-
the
cassette
was in your truck."
Usage of
shanty
in inglês
1
The
shanty
rocked in the wind like the cradle of a child.
2
From the interior of the
shanty
behind there came a similar chorus.
3
The answering voice was the voice of the man of the
shanty
.
4
The Siner home was a three-room
shanty
about midway in the semicircle.
5
The gnawing still went on behind the old
shanty
by the river.
6
In that
shanty
up the valley, Dad and I live there alone.
7
He had been reading in his
shanty
surgery on the Allowa Reserve.
8
They stable it nights in a little shed back of their
shanty
.
9
I couldn't do it in the
shanty
,
with the noise and singing.
10
The first was the affair at the
shanty
on Lac des Caps.
11
This is the
shanty
which is perhaps the best known among landsmen.
12
Bull Sternford was standing before the wood stove in the camp-boss's
shanty
.
13
The
shanty
was dark and Tessibel stood long looking intently at it.
14
The men had finished their conversation, and were now approaching the
shanty
.
15
The Gorasni refugees were located on the western edge of the
shanty
.
16
Her motorcade sped past some of Rio's 661 favelas or
shanty
towns.
Other examples for "shanty"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
shanty
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
little shanty
old shanty
wooden shanty
rude shanty
wretched shanty
More collocations
Translations for
shanty
português
choça
cabana
choupana
casebre
barraco
catalão
cabana
barraca
tuguri
cabanya
casot
espanhol
chabola
Shanty
through the time
Shanty
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common