SHANTY meaning: Rustic song of sailors, rhythmic

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word shanty:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

shanty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shanty: Merriam-Webster
shanty, shanty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
shanty, shanty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
shanty: Collins English Dictionary
shanty: Vocabulary.com
Shanty, shanty: Wordnik
shanty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
shanty: Wiktionary
shanty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
shanty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
shanty: Infoplease Dictionary
shanty: Dictionary.com
shanty (1), shanty (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
shanty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Shanty (disambiguation), Shanty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Shanty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
shanty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
shanty: Rhymezone
Shanty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
shanty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SHANTY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Shanty: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
shanty: FreeDictionary.org
shanty: Mnemonic Dictionary
shanty: TheFreeDictionary.com
Shanty: World Wide Words

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

shanty: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

shanty, shanty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
shanty: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A roughly-built hut or cabin.
▸ noun:  A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
▸ noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
▸ adjective:  (US, derogatory) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
▸ verb:  To inhabit a shanty.
▸ noun:  A song sailors sing, especially in rhythm to work, to help coordinate hauling (pulling) at the same time, or to set the pace for continuous activities.
▸ adjective:  Jaunty; showy.

Similar:

shack, hut, chanty, chantey, hovel, hutch, sea chantey, shant, shantytown, shanty town, more...

Opposite:

mansion, villa, estate, palace, manor

Types:

log cabin, cabin, barn, shed, outhouse, lean-to, trailer, houseboat, yurt, more...

Phrases:

shanty towns, shanty town, sea shanty, claim shanty, Lace curtain and shanty Irish, more...

Adjectives:

little, old, wooden, small, miserable, rough, rude, down, wretched, dilapidated, poor

Colors:

navy blue, ocean blue, coral pink, sunset orange, stormy gray, more...