skyscraper


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skyscraper
n. very tall building


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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper. However, as per usual practice in most cities, the definition is used empirically, depending on the relative impact of the shape of a building to a city's overall skyline. Thus, depending on the average height of the rest of the buildings and/ or structures in a city, even a building of 80 meters height (approximately 262 ft) may be considered a skyscraper provided that it clearly stands out above its surrounding built environment and significantly changes the overall skyline of that particular city.
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skyscraper
Noun
1. a very tall building with many stories
(hypernym) building, edifice
(hyponym) World Trade Center, WTC, twin towers



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