0 a town where few or no people now live --
1 a town that was busy in the past but is now empty or nearly empty because the activities that kept people there have stopped --
It has been described as a ghost town; it is desolate, isolated and empty.
The town becomes a winter ghost town—no one lives there, no one is seen there.
The area is becoming something approaching a ghost town.
A new town is neither a dormitory nor a ghost town after working hours.
What was once a prosperous and thriving place with an extremely successful tourist industry is now a ghost town.
The whole of the top end is like a ghost town, and those who are left are miserable.
Without it, the whole of docklands would have become a ghost town and a depressed area.
The area will be turned into a ghost town.
