Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A once thriving town, especially a boomtown of the American West, that has been completely abandoned.
Wiktionary
- n. A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity.
- n. An Internet forum that lacks active users.
- n. Figurative. An artist who lacks a fanbase.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)
Examples
“In the foul entry foyer the intercom had been stolen and the front door was open, swinging in the breeze like a batwing door in a ghost town saloon.”
“Fregellae had been a ghost town for eighty-five years, sacked by Lucius Opimius for rebelling against Rome in the days when the peninsula had been tesselated with Italian states interspersed with Roman “colonies” of citizens.”
“He drove over to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, which had gone from the coolest place in the world to semi – ghost town in one fell swoop after the ’94 quake.”
“I am handcuffed behind my back and led to the ghost town of the East Dayroom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ghost town’.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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not prime real estate
describing areas where the poor, unhomed and oppressed are found. Some of these didn't belong in miserable circumstances.
villa miseria, urban decay, urban blight, trailer park, township, tent city, Tenderloin, squalor, slurb, slum, skid row, sink of corruption and 35 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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old west.
cowboy, outlaw, desperado, rancher, cattleman, brawl, gunslinger, chaps, saloon, whiskey, frontier, gold and 44 more...
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Ghost Words
ghost story, ghost town, ghostwrite, give up the ghost, ghost in the machine, ghost of a chance, lay that ghost to..., ghosting, white as a ghost, ghost argument, holy ghost, ghost ride the whip and 43 more...
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Displacemattes
Mysterious places and lands I ought to visit...
antichthon, lubberland, flat earth, shangri-la, dystopia, peristalith, htrae, phaeton, pop star, asgard, melmac, annwn and 78 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ghost town.
reesetee Don't forget the lovely Centralia, PA. :-( Feb 6, 2008
treeseed noun
Date: 1931
: a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource
_Wikipedia
Also as the result of an ecological disaster as in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York or Chernobyl Feb 6, 2008