boom town

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a town that has become rich and successful because trade and industry has developed there

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

boom townEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary boom townEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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boom town