🏚️ An empty place 👻 A place with spirits

ghostland

9.1

A place that people think is haunted

noun
/ˈɡoʊstˌlænd/

Literature

: lugar encantado

Many local legends warn people to stay away from ghostland, as it is said to be haunted by restless spirits.

Examples

The old mansion is considered to be ghostland, where visitors report strange noises and sightings.
I warned Bigfoot that this was Ghostland, the territory of demons and monsters, but his hunting blood was up, and the hunting is good under the trees at night, and he would not listen.

Fiction book (1994)
We walked out across Ghostland.

Fiction book (1994)
Out into Ghostland.

Fiction book (1994)
And ever since then, when I go near Ghostland, I can hear the Fast Dead Thing hunting for me, roaring back and forth, hunting through the night to find me.

Fiction book (1994)
He was mashed into the dead black ground of Ghostland, in a puddle of his own guts and blood.

Fiction book (1994)
After dark, the abandoned forest was known as ghostland, a place where few dared to venture alone.

Surface Forms

ghostland singular

ghostlands plural

Morphology

ghostland = ghost + land (transparent) = ghost + land

Directly interpretable as 'land of ghosts' or a place inhabited/haunted by ghosts, which follows normal compounding semantics.

Etymology

Ghostland comes from ghost ('spirit' or 'dead person') and land ('place'). It suggests a place where ghosts may live, so ghostland is used for a haunted or spirit-filled place.