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modern ruin

modern ruin is the singular of modern ruins.

Meaning of modern ruins

Noun

modern ruins pl (normally plural, singular modern ruin)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) The remains of architecture and infrastructure built in the recent past, generally from the 19th century onward, that have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair due to processes like urban decay, deindustrialization, or economic collapse.

Forms of modern ruin

pluralmodern ruins

Questions about modern ruin

What is modern ruin the singular of?
Modern ruin is the singular of modern ruins.

Words near modern ruin in the dictionary

  1. modern period
  2. modern physics
  3. Modern Portuguese
  4. modern primitive
  5. modern primitives
  6. modern ruin
  7. modern ruins
  8. Modern South Arabian
  9. Modern Standard Arabic
  10. modern studies
  11. modern synthesis

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