hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty
(noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling
chantey, chanty, sea chantey, shanty
(noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shanty (plural shanties)
A roughly-built hut or cabin.
Synonym: shack
A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
(Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
Synonym: speakeasy
shanty (not comparable)
(US, pejorative) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
Applied to poor Irish immigrants, from the mid-1800s.
shanty (third-person singular simple present shanties, present participle shantying, simple past and past participle shantied)
To inhabit a shanty.
shanty (plural shanties)
A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
Synonym: sea shanty
Hypernym: work song
shanty (comparative more shanty, superlative most shanty)
Jaunty; showy.
Source: Wiktionary
Shan"ty, a.
Definition: Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.]
Shan"ty, n.;pl. Shanties. Etym: [Said to be fr. Ir. sean old + tig. a house.]
Definition: A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
Shan"ty, v. i.
Definition: To inhabit a shanty. S. H. Hammond.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
