English-Dutch translations for ghost town

• spookstad
  Het is al beschreven als een spookstad; het is uitgestorven, geïsoleerd en leeg. It has been described as a ghost town; it is desolate, isolated and empty.
  De Noord-Cypriotische leider Denktash bood de Moslim-vluchtelingen honderdduizend woonplaatsen aan in de spookstad Magusta. Mr Denktash, the leader of Northern Cyprus, offered Muslim refugees 100 000 homes in the ghost town of Magusta.
  De vluchtelingenbeweging van Famagusta bestaat uit ontheemde burgers van een stad die nu al 32 jaar lang een spookstad is. The movement of refugees from Famagusta consists of displaced citizens from what has been a ghost town for 32 years.

Definition of ghost town

• A town which has become deserted#Adjective|deserted, usually due to failing#Adjective|failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains
• Anything that has been desert#Verb|deserted or abandon#Verb|abandoned, or has been empty#Adjective|empty all along

Related words

• ghost story
• Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• to not have a ghost of a chance