GHOST TOWN

Meaning of GHOST TOWN in English

Function: noun

Date: 1931

: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

GHOST TOWN — noun Date: 1931 a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GHOST TOWN — noun : an abandoned town or village that is at least in part still standing
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GHOST TOWN — a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GHOST TOWN — deserted town, uninhabited town
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GHOST TOWN — Date: 1931 : a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GHOST TOWN — ■ noun a town with few or no remaining inhabitants.
Concise Oxford English vocab
GHOST TOWN — [ghost town] n (1931): a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usu. as a result of the exhaustion of some …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GHOST TOWN — noun a town that used to be busy and have a lot of people living in it, but is now …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GHOST TOWN — ˈghost town BrE AmE noun [countable] a town that used to have a lot of people living and working in …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GHOST TOWN — ( ghost towns) A ghost town is a town which used to be busy and wealthy but is now poor …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GHOST TOWN — (~s) A ~ is a town which used to be busy and wealthy but is now poor and deserted. Mogadishu …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
GHOST TOWN — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GHOST TOWN — See ↑ EMPTY 3
Longman Activator English vocab
GHOST TOWN — опустевший город (американизм) город-призрак; город, покинутый жителями (особ. в западных штатах из-за свертывания добычи угля)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GHOST TOWN — Исчезнувшие города
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
GHOST TOWN — амер. город-призрак; город, покинутый жителями ( особ. в западных штатах из-за свёртывания добычи угля )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
GHOST TOWN — опустевший город
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
GHOST TOWN — амер. город-призрак; город, покинутый жителями ( особ. в западных штатах из-за свёртывания добычи угля )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
GHOST TOWN — амер. город-призрак; город, покинутый жителями ( особ. в западных штатах из-за свёртывания добычи угля )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
GHOST TOWN — призрачный город, город призрак
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
GHOST TOWN — призрачный город, город призрак
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
GHOST TOWN — опустевший город
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
GHOST TOWN — опустевший город
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
GHOST TOWN — разг. город-призрак (с уменьшающейся деловой активностью и уменьшением населения)
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
GHOST TOWN — разг. город-призрак (с уменьшающейся деловой активностью и уменьшением населения)
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
GHOST TOWN — [амер.] город-призрак, город, покинутый жителями
Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
GHOST TOWN — амер . город-призрак, город, покинутый жителями
Англо-Русский словарь - Королев
GHOST TOWN — город-призрак; населенный пункт, покинутый жителями (в результате истощения природных ресурсов, социальных катаклизмов и т.п.).
Англо-Русский социологический энциклопедический словарь
GHOST TOWN — опустевший город (американизм) город-призрак; город, покинутый жителями (особ. в западных штатах из-за свертывания добычи угля)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
GHOST — I. ˈgōst noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gāst; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TOWN — ˈtau̇n noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English town, toun, from Old English tūn enclosure, manor, village, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GHOST — (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the …
Английский словарь Webster
GHOST — ( n. ) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
TOWN — — townless , adj. /town/ , n. 1. a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GHOST — — ghostily , adv. — ghostlike , adj. /gohst/ , n. 1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GHOST — I. ˈgōst noun Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gāst; akin to Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOWN — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tūn enclosure, village, town; akin to Old High German zūn enclosure, Old Irish …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOWN — adv & ·prep the court end of london;-- commonly with the. 2. town ·adv & ·prep a farm or farmstead; …
Webster English vocab
GHOST — noun the spirit; the soul of man. 2. ghost ·vi to die; to expire. 3. ghost ·vt to appear to …
Webster English vocab
TOWN — [town] n [ME, fr. OE tun enclosure, village, town; akin to OHG zun enclosure, OIr dun fortress] (bef. 12c) 1 …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GHOST — [ghost] n [ME gost, gast, fr. OE gast; akin to OHG geist spirit, Skt heda anger] (bef. 12c) 1: the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GHOST — soul or spectre of a dead person, usually believed to inhabit the netherworld and to be capable of returning in …
Britannica English vocabulary
TOWN — town BrE AmE taʊn ▷ towns taʊnz ▶ ˌ town ˈ clerk BrE AmE ▶ ˌ town ˈ crier BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GHOST — ghost BrE AmE ɡəʊst AmE ɡoʊst ▷ ghosted ˈɡəʊst ɪd -əd AmE ˈɡoʊst əd ▷ ghosting ˈɡəʊst ɪŋ AmE ˈɡoʊst …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TOWN — / taʊn; NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] a place with many houses, shops / stores, etc. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GHOST — / gəʊst; NAmE goʊst/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] the spirit of a dead person that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOWN — town S1 W1 /taʊn/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: tun 'yard, buildings inside a wall, village, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GHOST — I. ghost 1 /ɡəʊst $ ɡoʊst/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: gast ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TOWN — n. 1 a a large urban area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, being larger than a village …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GHOST — n. & v. --n. 1 the supposed apparition of a dead person or animal; a disembodied spirit. 2 a shadow …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TOWN — n. 1 a a large urban area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, being larger than a village …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GHOST — n. & v. n. 1 the supposed apparition of a dead person or animal; a disembodied spirit. 2 a shadow …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TOWN — n.1 a a large urban area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, being larger than a village and …
Oxford English vocab
GHOST — n. & v. --n. 1. the supposed apparition of a dead person or animal; a disembodied spirit. 2 a shadow …
Oxford English vocab
TOWN — ( towns) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A town is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GHOST — ( ghosts, ghosting, ghosted) 1. A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TOWN — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a border town ▪ the Chinese border town of Shenzhen a commuter town/village (= that …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GHOST — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a ghost/horror story ▪ They sat round the fire telling ghost stories. ▪ She …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TOWN — [noun] - a place where there are a lot of houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, places of …
Cambridge English vocab
TOWN — n. hick town jerkwater town one horse town small town tank town
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
TOWN — noun 1 place with many streets and buildings ADJECTIVE ▪ big , large , major ▪ little , small , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GHOST — noun VERB + GHOST ▪ see ▪ You look as if you've seen a ~! ▪ believe in ▪ I …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
TOWN — INDEX: 1. a town 2. the centre of a town or city 3. the areas at the edge of a …
Longman Activator English vocab
TOWN — See ↑ TOWN 1,6 ◆◆◆ • ↑ ghost town • ↑ home town • ↑ in/into town • ↑ the …
Longman Activator English vocab

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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