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skyscraper

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Skyscrapers

Etymology

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Compound ofsky +‎scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skyscraper (pluralskyscrapers)

  2. (architecture) A very tallbuilding with a large number of floors.[from 1880s]
    • 1910,William Henry Irwin,The House of Mystery‎[1]:
      As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of theskyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.
    • 1912,Elliott O'Donnell,The Sorcery Club‎[2]:
      The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of askyscraper—at least askyscraper for that part of the city.
    • 1917, Herman Gastrell Seely,A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life‎[3]:
      Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that askyscraper which he has passed daily for months is out of line with its neighbor, that the seat behind the new little girl was unoccupied and that she stood alone in the aisle during exercises.
    • 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Wards Codex entry:
      The Wards are open-topped, withskyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
    • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, inThe Economist‎[4], volume407, number8839, archived fromthe original on25 November 2020, page52:
      From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…]  But viewed from high up in one of the growing number ofskyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
    • 2025 April 24, Oscar Holland, “Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade”, inCNN‎[5]:
      Construction of the world’s tallest unoccupiedskyscraper may resume as early as next week, almost 10 years after work ground to a halt, according to Chinese state media.
    • 2025 June 13, Luciana Lopez and Chris Isidore, “US Steel and Nippon Steel say Trump has approved their partnership”, inCNN Business‎[6]:
      Its steel helped build America, from theskyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.
  3. (nautical, archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship; atriangularskysail.
  4. (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
    • 1920,Zane Grey,The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories‎[7]:
      It was no surprise to see Hanley bat askyscraper out to left.

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Hyponyms

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architecture

Coordinate terms

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architecture

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Descendants

Translations

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tall building
sail

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