ghost town

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noun

a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out.

Origin of ghost town

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby ghost town

ghost net, ghost prisoner, Ghosts, ghost shrimp, ghost story, ghost town, ghost-weed, ghost word, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul

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Example sentences from the Web for ghost town

The sun will set in less than an hour and a hubbub will emerge from the ghost-town houses and farms.
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British Dictionary definitions for ghost town

ghost town

noun

a deserted town, esp one in the western US that was formerly a boom town

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with ghost town

ghost town

A once thriving town that has been completely abandoned, as in Many of the old mining communities are ghost towns now. This idiom implies that there are no living people left in town. [First half of 1900s]

Cultural definitions for ghost town

ghost town

A town, especially a boomtown in the old American West, that has been completely abandoned and deserted: “If you drive through the desert, you can still see the main street of Dry Gulch, a ghost town.”

单词	ghost town
释义	ghost town SEE SYNONYMS FOR ghost town ON THESAURUS.COM noun a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out. Origin of ghost town First recorded in 1870–75 Words nearby ghost town ghost net, ghost prisoner, Ghosts, ghost shrimp, ghost story, ghost town, ghost-weed, ghost word, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ghost town The sun will set in less than an hour and a hubbub will emerge from the ghost-town houses and farms. Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq\|Nathan Bradley Bethea\|August 31, 2014\|DAILY BEAST British Dictionary definitions for ghost town ghost town noun a deserted town, esp one in the western US that was formerly a boom town Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with ghost town ghost town A once thriving town that has been completely abandoned, as in Many of the old mining communities are ghost towns now. This idiom implies that there are no living people left in town. [First half of 1900s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Cultural definitions for ghost town ghost town A town, especially a boomtown in the old American West, that has been completely abandoned and deserted: “If you drive through the desert, you can still see the main street of Dry Gulch, a ghost town.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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