skyscraper

Wikipedia

The Two International Finance Center, a skyscraper in Hong Kong.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"skaI%skr\eIp.@(r\)/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/, SAMPA: /"skaI%skr\eIp@`/

Noun

skyscraper (plural skyscrapers)

1. A very tall building with a great number of floors.
   • 1910, William Henry Irwin, The House of Mystery,

     As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.

   • 1912, Elliott O'Donnell, The Sorcery Club,

     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 a skyscraper—at least a skyscraper for that part of the city.

   • 1917, Herman Gastrell Seely, A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life,

     Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that a skyscraper 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.

2. (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
3. (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
   • 1920, Zane Grey, The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories,

     It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.

Translations

tall building

Afrikaans: wolkekrabber Arabic: ناطحة سحاب (ar) (naaTiHat saHaab) f. Armenian: երկնաքեր (hy) (erknakʿer) Azeri: göydələn (az) Basque: etxeorratz Belarusian: небасяг (be) (nebasjáh) m. Bosnian: neboder (bs) Bulgarian: небостъргач (bg) (nebostărgač) m. Catalan: gratacel m. Chinese: Mandarin: 摩天大樓 (cmn), 摩天大楼 (cmn) (mótiān dàlóu), 摩天樓 (zh), 摩天楼 (zh) (mótiānlóu) Croatian: nȅbodēr (hr) m. Czech: mrakodrap (cs) m. Danish: skyskraber (da) c. Dutch: wolkenkrabber (nl) m. Esperanto: nubskrapulo Estonian: pilvelõhkuja Finnish: pilvenpiirtäjä (fi) French: gratte-ciel (fr) m. Galician: rañaceos m. Georgian: ცათამბჯენი (ka) (tsatambjeni) German: Wolkenkratzer (de) m., Hochhaus (de) n. Greek: ουρανοξύστης (el) (uranoxístis) m. Hebrew: גּוֹרֵד־שְׁחָקִים (he) (goréd-sh'khakím) m. Hindi: गगनचुंबी इमारत (hi) (gaganacumbī imārat), गगनचुम्बी इमारत (hi) (gaganacumbī imārat) Hungarian: felhőkarcoló (hu)

Indonesian: pencakar langit Italian: grattacielo (it) m. Japanese: 超高層ビル (ja) (chōkōsō-biru), 摩天楼 (ja) (まてんろう, matenrō) Korean: 마천루 (ko) (macheollu) (摩天樓 (ko)) Kurdish: balexane (ku) f. Latvian: debesskrāpis (lv) Lithuanian: dangoraižis Norwegian: skyskraper (no) Occitan: gratacèl m. Persian: آسمانخراش (fa) Polish: wieżowiec (pl) m., drapacz chmur (pl) m. Portuguese: arranha-céu (pt) m. Romanian: zgârie-nori (ro) Russian: небоскрёб (ru) (neboskrjób) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: небодер (sh) m., облакодер (sh) m. Roman: neboder (sh) m., oblakoder (sh) m. Slovak: mrakodrap (sk) m. Slovene: nebotičnik (sl) m. Spanish: rascacielos (es) m., torre (es) f. Swedish: skyskrapa (sv) c. Tamil: வானளாவி (vāṅaḷāvi) Thai: ตึกระฟ้า (tiikrafâa) Turkish: gökdelen (tr) Ukrainian: хмарочос (uk) (xmaročós) m. Urdu: بلند ترین عمارات Vietnamese: nhà chọc trời (vi) Volapük: silikratabumot (vo)

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