English-Spanish translations for ghost town

• ciudad fantasma
  La han calificado de ciudad fantasma; está desierta, aislada y vacía. It has been described as a ghost town; it is desolate, isolated and empty.
  El movimiento de refugiados de Famagusta está integrado por ciudadanos desplazados de una ciudad que durante 32 años ha sido una ciudad fantasma. The movement of refugees from Famagusta consists of displaced citizens from what has been a ghost town for 32 years.
  Hoy, la competencia desleal de Asia la ha convertido en una ciudad fantasma, ya que la actividad empresarial en Prato ha quedado totalmente arruinada. Today, unfair competition from Asia has turned it into a ghost town, because business in Prato has been utterly devastated.
• despoblado
• pueblo fantasma

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