"ghost street" meaning in All languages combined

See ghost street on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ghost streets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghost street (plural ghost streets)
  1. A former street that has been demolished or built over but remains at least partly visible.
    Sense id: en-ghost_street-en-noun-Nw4gi7I4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2012, Tricia Wastvedt, The German Boy:",
          "text": "He began to pick out empty spaces, the shapes of battered half-demolished structures, and sometimes there were neighbourhoods of ghost streets with pavements.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A former street that has been demolished or built over but remains at least partly visible."
      ],
      "id": "en-ghost_street-en-noun-Nw4gi7I4",
      "links": [
        [
          "street",
          "street"
        ],
        [
          "demolish",
          "demolish"
        ],
        [
          "built",
          "build"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghost street"
}
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    }
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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