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ghost towns

ghost towns is the plural of ghost town.

Meaning of ghost town

Noun

ghost town (plural ghost towns)

  1. A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.
    • Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Jueger, pioneers of Grays Harbor City, and sole inhabitants of the "ghost town".1916 April, W. L. Morris, “The Town that Died A-Bornin’: Grays Harbor City, a ‘Ghost Town’ in the Forest”, in Sunset: The Pacific Monthly, volume XXXVI, number 4, image caption, page 41, column 1
  2. (figuratively) Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been empty all along.
    • It was the Friday evening before Christmas and ASU was a ghost town. Most everyone had left for the holiday several days earlier, including all of Professor Brinkerman's students.2014, D. C. Johnston, chapter 31, in Celtic Treasure: A Mick Scott Adventure, [s.n.]: Johnston Enterprises, →ISBN, page 195

Questions about ghost towns

What is ghost towns the plural of?
Ghost towns is the plural of ghost town.

Words near ghost towns in the dictionary

  1. ghost street
  2. ghost streets
  3. ghost swift
  4. ghost swifts
  5. ghost town
  6. ghost towns
  7. ghost track
  8. ghost tracks
  9. ghost train
  10. ghost trains
  11. ghost tree

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