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modern ruins

modern ruins noun: 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.

modern ruins: the remains of architecture and infrastructure built in the recent past, generally from the 19th...
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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 ruins

singularmodern ruin

Questions about modern ruins

What does modern ruins mean?
Modern ruins means 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.
What part of speech is modern ruins?
Modern ruins is a noun.

Words near modern ruins in the dictionary

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