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Skyscraper Moderate

Skyscraper has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a very tall building with many stories

2

A very tall building with a large number of floors.

See Also
building tall tall building gherkin skyscrapers empire state building tower skyfarming
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
building

Origin

The word skyscraper is a compound of "sky" and "scraper." It was first used in the 1880s to describe tall steel-frame buildings in American cities like New York and Chicago.

Rhyming Words
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