boomtown en · NOUN
Etymology
From boom + town.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of boom town.
alt of boom town
The mining boomtown she remembered was now a ghost town.
Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown. Its arid outskirts are home to the flagship campus of Stargate, the data-center partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank heralded by Trump in January.
2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boomtowns | Number=Plur | lexicographic |