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ghost street

ghost street noun: a former street that has been demolished or built over but remains at least partly visible.

Noun

ghost street (plural ghost streets)

  1. A former street that has been demolished or built over but remains at least partly visible.
    • He began to pick out empty spaces, the shapes of battered half-demolished structures, and sometimes there were neighbourhoods of ghost streets with pavements.2012, Tricia Wastvedt, The German Boy

Forms of ghost street

pluralghost streets

Questions about ghost street

What does ghost street mean?
Ghost street means a former street that has been demolished or built over but remains at least partly visible.
What part of speech is ghost street?
Ghost street is a noun.
What is the plural of ghost street?
The plural of ghost street is ghost streets.

Words near ghost street in the dictionary

  1. ghost spam
  2. ghost station
  3. ghost stations
  4. ghost stories
  5. ghost story
  6. ghost street
  7. ghost streets
  8. ghost swift
  9. ghost swifts
  10. ghost town
  11. ghost towns

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