# der Lost Place

der Lost Place is a German noun meaning “abandoned building”. Forms: des Lost Places, die Lost Places.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Lost Places
- Plural: die Lost Places

## Meanings

1. _colloquial_ abandoned building
   - In gleich zwei Lost Places in Südhessen hat es gebrannt. Bei Weiterstadt stand ein alter Gasthof in Flammen, in Bad König brannte eine ehemalige Klinik. — There were simultaneous fires in two abandoned buildings in South Hesse. An old guesthouse went up in flames In Weiterstadt, and a former clinic burned in Bad König.
2. abandoned premises; modern ruins
   - „Mr. McCaffertys Kanal folgt ihm und seiner Freundin Polly, die verschiedenste Lost Places in ganz Großbritannien erforschen.“

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