boomtown
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈbuːmˌtaʊn/
:
ciudad en auge
- After all, this was boomtown, where any fool could make cash from chaos, and plenty did.
- mining boomtown
- Amazonian boomtowns
Examples
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As in any boomtown, speculation is rampant, and there are no small deals.
Academic text (1993) -
Calgary is a boomtown of sorts, built on oil and livestock.
Blog text (11) -
My grandfather lived here when it was a real boomtown.
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Little known today, Oil City, Pennsylvania, was once a sprawling oil boomtown.
Blog text (3) -
Abilene had been a boomtown when the long Texas cattle drives ended there.
Fiction book (1993) -
But recently, Baku has become a modern version of America's Wild West, with all the trappings of an oil boomtown.
Academic text (1998) -
Parauapebas is a decade-old boomtown located outside the Carajas mining project in Para.
Academic text (1992) -
This article examines the growth of a new Amazonian boomtown, Parauapebas, through a series of urban squatter invasions.
Academic text (1992) -
The lure of these resources attracts legions of interregional migrants, who find themselves housed precariously in remote Amazonian boomtowns.
Academic text (1992) -
In the late 1800s, the discovery of gold turned this small village into a bustling boomtown almost overnight.
Synonyms
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4.4
A town that grows quickly and becomes rich after a new industry or discovery
Antonyms
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word boomtown is simply boom + town; think of a town that suddenly 'booms' — the boom part suggests a 'loud sound' or a 'sudden rise' in jobs and money. So a boomtown is a place that grows very quickly and becomes rich after a new industry or resource appears.