ruins
**Definition:** The remains of a human-built structure after it has been abandoned and partly destroyed by time, weather, and neglect. The word implies both destruction and persistence — what is left is what was strong enough to survive. Ruins are landscape features as much as architectural ones; they are absorbed back into the ground they were built from, becoming part of the terrain.
The remains of a human-built structure after it has been abandoned and partly destroyed by time, weather, and neglect. The word implies both destruction and persistence — what is left is what was strong enough to survive. Ruins are landscape features as much as architectural ones; they are absorbed back into the ground they were built from, becoming part of the terrain.
Etymology
Latin ruina, a falling down, a collapse, from ruere, to fall. The word names the process and the result.
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