mid-rise

[mid-rahyz]

adjective

1. (of a building) having a moderately large number of stories, usually five to ten, and equipped with elevators.

noun

1. a mid-rise apartment or office building.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mid-rise¹

First recorded in 1965–70; mid- + (high)-rise

Example Sentences

The first scenario proposes awakening a sleepy commercial corridor with low- and mid-rise apartments.

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Apple announced the office development in 2021, saying it would erect two mid-rise buildings as tall as five stories with a total of more than 550,000 square feet.

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You’re looking at a mid-rise luxury apartment.

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Mid-rise apartments can attract other pests to your neighborhood: luxury workout studios, Sweetgreen and its competitors, droves of high-earning white professionals in a perpetual limbo of well-funded arrested development, which mostly seems to involve drinking mimosas and gentrifying.

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As a result, much of our new, mid-rise infill housing of three, four, and even five stories is off limits to those who cannot use the stairs.

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