DESERTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deserted mean? 

• DESERTED (adjective)
  The adjective DESERTED has 1 sense:

1. forsaken by owner or inhabitants

  Familiarity information: DESERTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESERTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forsaken by owner or inhabitants

Synonyms:

abandoned; derelict; deserted

Context example:

weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

Similar:

uninhabited (not having inhabitants; not lived in)

 Context examples 

And here, in this inferno of luggage, was White Fang deserted by the master.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“We thought—Mr. Copperfield thought—it was quite a large rookery; but the nests were very old ones, and the birds have deserted them a long while.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And yet the cottage was not deserted, for a low sound came to our ears—a kind of drone of misery and despair which was indescribably melancholy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this way he found the place deserted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a deserted cabin of a single room, eight feet by ten on the inside.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I almost gasped as the thought came to me: What if the Ghost is deserted?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Really, now!” cried the inspector, “you have formed your opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is south, for the country is more deserted there.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a very long day and a hard one for Amy, as she sat behind her table, often quite alone, for the little girls deserted very soon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the proceeds of their hunting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Isabella—no wonder now I have not heard from her—Isabella has deserted my brother, and is to marry yours!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)