Usually means: Abandoned, uninhabited settlement; eerie silence.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word ghost town:

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  1. ghost town: Merriam-Webster
  2. ghost town: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ghost town: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ghost town: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ghost town: Vocabulary.com
  6. ghost-town: Wordnik
  7. ghost town: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ghost-town, ghost town: Wiktionary
  9. ghost town: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ghost town: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ghost town: Dictionary.com
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  13. ghost town: Rhymezone
  14. ghost town: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ghost town: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ghost town: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ghost town: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ghost Town (song), ghost town: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ghost town: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ghost_towns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ghost town)

noun:  A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been empty all along.

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