high-rise
or high·rise
[hahy-rahyz]
- (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of high-rise buildings.
- of or being a small-wheeled bicycle with high handlebars and a banana-shaped seat.
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- Also high rise, high-riser. a high-rise apartment or office building.
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Origin of high-rise
First recorded in 1950–55
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Contemporary Examples
Noonan accounts for everything to do with the coat, from the wool production to its current home in a Canada high-rise.
One, called the Qasr al-Nile bridge, runs past the high-rise Semiramis Hotel directly into the square.
She remembers staying in youth hostels and private homes rather than in high-rise hotels.
Police had searched the Bronx high-rise where he was stuck, but never thought he was in one of its elevators.
Some girls gather around a desk in a high-rise apartment building.
Historical Examples
Pertinent is the one nearly successful attempt which was made to approach the high-rise problem electrically.
Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889Robert M. Vogel
high-rise
- (prenominal)of or relating to a building that has many storeys, esp one used for flats or officesa high-rise block Compare low-rise
- (as noun)a high-rise in Atlanta
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