Wüstung
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle High German wüestunge, wustunge.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Wüstung f (genitive Wüstung, plural Wüstungen)
- abandoned village (settlement of which there are only traces left)
- Synonyms: Elende, Geisterstadt, Ödung
Declension
[edit]Declension of Wüstung [feminine]
Further reading
[edit]- “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