abandoned building
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- noun
- /əˈbændənd ˈbɪldɪŋ/
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edificio abandonado
- The old factory is now just an abandoned building covered in vines and graffiti.
Living in trailers, sleeping in the back of abandoned buildings on futons.
- Living in trailers, sleeping in the back of abandoned buildings on futons.
- They were into the mountains, very near to where we live, an abandoned building, quite rundown.
- And much to my wonder in awe, this abandoned building called the Buckner Building, where I explored as a child, was still there, abandoned.
- And so is this like abandoned building, you know, kind of weird, you know, like edgy.
- It's still in the central of Pristina at this abandoned building.
Examples
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Farther down, in the center of one side of the street, stands a particularly ominous abandoned building.
Fiction book (2001) -
My parents are squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.
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And is living in an abandoned building.
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Because where I went was an abandoned building.
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On the way there, we passed by abandoned buildings like these.
Blog text (12) -
Do you know how many abandoned buildings we have in Detroit?
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There was a fire last night in an abandoned building in the 9th Ward.
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They had retreated and were living in the abandoned buildings in Manhattan.
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Ten percent of the city's land is unoccupied, and about 14,000 abandoned buildings.
Academic text (2002) -
One of the images he displayed showed the Divine Lorraine Hotel, an abandoned building on Broad and Fairmount streets.
Blog text (13)
Synonyms
An empty building used as shelter or for illegal activity
An abandoned house left to fall apart after a disaster
Antonyms
How Occupied
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a building that is no longer used or occupied' is directly and compositionally derivable from the adjective 'abandoned' (left vacant) modifying the noun 'building' (edifice). This straightforward adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Abandoned building paints a simple picture: a building that people have left—abandoned—so it stands empty, with no one living or working inside. That's why it means 'a building that is no longer used or occupied'.