sociable Dictionary, social, lively His extrovert personality won him many friends.
1 The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush. 2  I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.3  The so-called port at Siem Reap is actually a huge shanty town where the jetty is literally collapsing into the water.oun. A deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of shanty dwellings. Example sentences. 1  The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush. 2  I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.
During the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted approximately a decade, shantytowns appeared across the U.S. as unemployed people were evicted from their homes. As the Depression worsened in the 1930s, causing severe hardships for millions of Americans, many looked to the federal government for assistance.