ghost town

1. 1.

   a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)

   Broadertown

   West

Questions about ghost town

What does ghost town mean?

ghost town means "a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)".

Is ghost town a common word?

ghost town is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.