low-rise

American  

[loh-rahyz] / ˈloʊˌraɪz /

adjective

1. having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.

2. (of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips.

   low-rise jeans.

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noun

1. a low-rise building.

low-rise British  

adjective

1. of or relating to a building having only a few storeys Compare high-rise

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noun

1. such a building

Etymology

Origin of low-rise

First recorded in 1955–60; on the model of high-rise ( def. )

Example Sentences

It demolished distressed high-rises, and used a combination of public and private funds to replace them with a mix of market-rate and subsidized units arranged in low-rise homes and townhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal

Align Real Estate was pitching 25 stories of housing to sit atop the grocery store, creating a 297-foot tower that would loom over the rest of the traditionally low-rise neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

We also used low-rise desks so it’s possible to look out the perimeter windows from the private offices.

From The Wall Street Journal

AT&T wants a low-rise, horizontal campus rather than its current high-rise, vertical downtown headquarters, and the company couldn’t find a downtown land parcel large enough for it, said a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal

The costs of the border war between Thailand and Cambodia are cruelly obvious in the hospital in Mongkol Borei, a breezy, low-rise complex surrounded by trees.

From BBC