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ghost town
noun
: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource
Examples of ghost town in a Sentence
After all the gold was mined, the place became a ghost town.
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Historic mining towns in Yuma, Jerome and Wickenburg At least three ghost towns in former mining communities are passport stops.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
Horizon Worlds—Meta’s flagship VR platform—was a virtual ghost town populated by legless virtual avatars.
—Webb Wright, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
The destination was beset by troubles and Two Guns is now considered a ghost town.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
Here, the octogenarian killer is the last resident of an orphanage in a ghost town; when a group of millennials sets upon it to turn it into a trendy hot spot, the orphanage’s owner dies and Leatherface goes bananas.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1894, in the meaning defined above
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“Ghost town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20town. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.
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ghost town
noun
: a town deserted because some natural resource has been used up
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