Wüstung
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German wüestunge, wustunge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvyːstʊŋ/
Audio 1 (file) Audio 2 (file) - Hyphenation: Wüs‧tung
Noun
Wüstung f (genitive Wüstung, plural Wüstungen)
- abandoned village (settlement of which there are only traces left)
- Synonyms: Elende, Geisterstadt, Ödung
Declension
Further reading
- “Wüstung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Wüstung” in Duden online
- “Wüstung”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Wüstung” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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