Definition of "kampongs" []

• Plural form of kampong. (noun)

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• "Passing through some of the tiny kampongs (villages), where every home is covered by a tin roof in varying degrees of rust, one wonders how much life has changed here over the decades."
• "As Singapore developed during the 1960s, '70s and' 80s, meandering country roads gave way to freeways, plantations were cleared and high-rise public housing replaced the kampongs, or villages, that once dotted the island."
• "So in the neighborhood of Malacca these kampongs are scattered through the perpetual twilight of the forest."