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Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

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A tall iron tower in Paris built for the 1889 World's Fair
  • proper noun
translation icon : Torre Eiffel
  • The Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and was the tallest man-made structure in the world at that time.
  • the Eiffel Tower in Paris

This sparked the idea in Lustig's mind that he could use the Eiffel Tower for his greatest con.

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Examples

  • The Eiffel Tower is a monument to modern manufacture, to prefabricated assembly.

    Academic text (2003)

  • I can see the Eiffel Tower.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • -I bet we're as high as the Eiffel Tower.

    Miracles from Heaven (2016)

  • The same guy that designed the Eiffel Tower?

    Ruta Madre (2019)

  • You guys like the Eiffel Tower?

    Jumper (2008)

  • Look at the Eiffel Tower!

    Luckytown (2000)

  • Up here you can see the Eiffel Tower.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Today's destination is the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

  • Instead, they announced in flawless Parisian French that they wanted to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • And I've dined atop of the Eiffel Tower as the lights shined as bright as a thousand stars.

    Almost Christmas (2016)

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Eiffel + tower

This is a compositional proper-name + noun combination: knowing 'tower' lets a learner infer a tall structure and 'Eiffel' indicates the specific name attached to it, so the basic referential meaning (a tower called 'Eiffel') is directly derivable. Although particulars like its location in Paris or historical fame are not encoded in the words, the core meaning is transparent and cross-linguistically predictable.

Etymology

Eiffel Tower is named after its designer, Gustave Eiffel, who built a giant iron tower for the 1889 World's Fair. It was meant to be temporary, but people loved the tall metal 'skeleton' and it stayed, so today it is a famous 'symbol' of Paris.