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skyscraper
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Noun skyscraper has 1 sense
- skyscraper(n = noun.artifact) - a very tall building with many stories; is a kind of building, edifice
has particulars: empire state building, petronas towers, sears tower, twin towers, world trade center, wtc
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skyscraper
antenna tower, architecture, barbican, belfry, bell tower, building, campanile, casa, cliff dwelling, colossus, column, construct, construction, consulate, country house, country seat, cupola, dacha, deanery, derrick, dome, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, establishment, fabric, farm, farmhouse, fire tower, hall, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, lantern, lighthouse, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, packaged house, pagoda, parsonage, penthouse, pilaster, pile, pillar, pinnacle, pole, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, presidential palace, pylon, pyramid, ranch house, rectory, roof, shaft, sod house, spire, split-level, standpipe, steeple, structure, stupa, superstructure, television mast, tope, tour, tower, town house, turret, vicarage, water tower, windmill towerROGET THESAURUS
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Height
N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.
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