boom town
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- noun
- /ˈbuːm taʊn/
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ciudad en auge
- The boom town of Nueva Loja owes its origins to discoveries of oil in the northeastern Oriente in 1967.
- frontier boom town
- boom town region
- largest boom towns
And and so fridge was going to become a boom town.
- And and so fridge was going to become a boom town.
Examples
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Boom towns have become a fundamental feature of the frontier's landscape.
Academic text (2000) -
Chicago was a boom town at the time of Chandler's birth.
Fiction book (1999) -
I mean this used to be a boom town.
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Yeah, I think we're gonna be a boom town again... just like in the old days.
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FairpIay was a boom town years back.
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Here is a story about an oil and gas boom town in Wyoming.
Blog text (24) -
The town was founded in the late 1800s, a boom town for miners.
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I have personally seen Calgary (as well as most of Alberta) grow into a boom town as a result of it.
Blog text (9) -
It says here the discovery of gold in Bendigo during the 1850's made it one of the most significant Victorian boom towns in Australia.
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Many people move to a boom town in search of better job opportunities and a higher quality of life.
Synonyms
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A town that grows quickly because a new business or resource brings jobs and money
Antonyms
How Prosperous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a town that experiences rapid growth and sudden prosperity' is directly and transparently built from 'boom' (a sharp increase in economic activity) + 'town' (a settlement). This compound follows a regular compositional pattern (a place characterized by X) found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Boom town comes from the image of a loud boom in a small town when something like gold or oil is found and people rush in to work and trade. So a Boom town is a place that 'grows fast' and 'gets rich quickly'.