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high-rise

high-rise

40 3.0
A tall building with many floors that holds homes or offices
  • noun
  • /ˈhaɪˌraɪz/
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  • She keeps a small apartment in a high-rise building overlooking the river.

They're staying at the biggest high rise overlooking Wow beach.

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Examples

  • As a matter of fact, we're gonna live in a high-rise building overlooking the city.

  • In the heart of downtown Sydney, atop a 58-story high-rise, is the penthouse suite owned by Adrian Cook, the mining and minerals billionaire.

  • But this is a high rise office building, right?

  • We build the biggest office high rise in the city.

  • And it was in the first floor of a high rise that was right on Lake MI, like in downtown Chicago.

  • It was in this huge high rise in downtown.

  • Surely we need to think about the safety of the people living in socially rented high rise blocks.

  • A twenty-storey luxury high-rise is to be built north of 91st Street.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • As a matter of fact, we're gonna live in a high-rise building overlooking the city.

  • We build the biggest office high-rise in the city.

Synonyms

apartment building
vshigh-rise
  • US
98 1.2

A large building with many separate homes where people live

is used for both homes and offices rather than only residences
skyscraper
vshigh-rise
63 3.0

A very tall building with many floors in a city

is for tall buildings that are not necessarily extremely tall
tower block
vshigh-rise
  • UK
1 3.5

A tall building with many apartments or offices on different floors

is used more broadly rather than mainly in British English

Antonyms

2 4.0

A building with only one or a few floors and no elevator

How Tall

skyscraper
63 3.0
high-rise
40 3.0
low-rise
2 4.0

Surface Forms

high-rise singular
high-rises plural

Morphology

high-rise = high + rise (transparent) = high + rise

A direct compound: 'high' + 'rise' yields the sense 'a structure that rises high', which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

High-rise is made from high ('tall') and rise ('to go up'), so imagine a building that 'rises' up into the sky. That's why a high-rise is a tall building with many floors.