basti
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/bʌstiː/
Definition of basti
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(India, North)A slum.
“There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.”
“With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.”
“Her mother-in-law, in her half-delirious state, was sure that their basti would be broken down and had aggressively begun to push her sons to buy a plot of land elsewhere.”
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noun
-
(India, North)A slum.
“There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.”
“With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.”
“Her mother-in-law, in her half-delirious state, was sure that their basti would be broken down and had aggressively begun to push her sons to buy a plot of land elsewhere.”
name
- A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi बस्ती (bastī, “settlement”).
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