ghost townnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡəʊst ˌtaʊn/us/ˈɡoʊst ˌtaʊn/a town where few or no people now live
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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
- aerotropolis
- backwater
- bedroom community
- Cantabrigian
- capital
- conurbation
- county borough
- dormitory town
- Greater
- hill station
- hometown
- megacity
- metropolis
- metropolitan
- one-horse town
- port
- settlement
- small-town
- town
- urbanite
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Examples from literature
- As is true with many ghost towns, people moved to Bodie originally because of gold.
- Some American ghost towns still have a little life in them.
- You can find small, forgotten towns, called ghost towns, in many places in the western part of the United States.