Also spelled sky-scraper and sky-scrapers
noun
Freq #24608
Meanings
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noun
A very tall building with many floors.
From the top of the skyscraper, the whole city looked tiny.
Thesaurus
Opposites
earthscrapergroundscraper
Word family
Forms
skyscrapers
Derived forms
rothscraperskyscraperedskyscraperlandskyscraperless
Etymology
Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.