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.
Shanty town in Soweto, South Africa, 2005. A shanty town or squatter area is a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes.Such settlements are usually found on the periphery of cities, in public parks, or near railroad tracks, rivers, lagoons or city trash dump sites.ometimes called a squatter, informal or spontaneous settlement, a typical shanty town often lacks proper sanitation, safe water supply, electricity, hygienic streets, or other basic human necessities.