| 单词 | ghost town |
| 释义 | ghost townSEE SYNONYMS FOR ghost town ON THESAURUS.COM nouna town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out. Origin of ghost townFirst recorded in 1870–75 Words nearby ghost townghost net, ghost prisoner, Ghosts, ghost shrimp, ghost story, ghost town, ghost-weed, ghost word, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ghost town
British Dictionary definitions for ghost townghost town nouna deserted town, esp one in the western US that was formerly a boom town Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with ghost townghost town A once thriving town that has been completely abandoned, as in Many of the old mining communities are ghost towns now. This idiom implies that there are no living people left in town. [First half of 1900s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Cultural definitions for ghost townghost town A town, especially a boomtown in the old American West, that has been completely abandoned and deserted: “If you drive through the desert, you can still see the main street of Dry Gulch, a ghost town.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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