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gapsite

gapsite noun: the location where a building has been torn down or demolished.

Noun

gapsite (plural gapsites)

  1. The location where a building has been torn down or demolished.
    • On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.2015, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, page 197
    • There were gapsites and half-demolished tenements but it was clear, after fifteen minutes of wandering around and climbing tenement stairs and craning out of landing windows, that the door-to-door team had successfully canvassed all of the buildings with a view of the warehouse.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 382

Forms of gapsite

pluralgapsites

Origin of gapsite

From gap + site.

Questions about gapsite

What does gapsite mean?
Gapsite means the location where a building has been torn down or demolished.
What part of speech is gapsite?
Gapsite is a noun.
What is the plural of gapsite?
The plural of gapsite is gapsites.

Words near gapsite in the dictionary

  1. gappy
  2. gappyness
  3. gaps
  4. gaps it
  5. gaps of danger
  6. gapsite
  7. gapsites
  8. Gapsted
  9. gaptoothed
  10. gapy
  11. gar

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