skyscraper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very tall building with a large number of floors.
    — The fact that land is a commodity of unlimited extent in America, together with the now appreciated fact that most high buildings have been economic failures, spell the doom of the skyscraper concept.
  2. A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail. archaic
    — Skyscraper. A name given to a skysail when it is triangular.
  3. Anything very tall or high. figuratively
    — It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.

词形变化

skyscrapers plural

词汇关系

反义词
earthscraper groundscraper
下位词
megatall plain tall supertall tall
衍生词
Rothscraper -scraper skyscrapered skyscraper heel skyscraperland skyscraperless
并列词
highrise high-rise high rise lowrise low-rise low rise mid-rise mid rise midrise

词源

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