high-rise
- noun
- /ˈhaɪˌraɪz/
- She keeps a small apartment in a high-rise building overlooking the river.
They're staying at the biggest high rise overlooking Wow beach.
- They're staying at the biggest high rise overlooking Wow beach.
- It was in this huge high rise in downtown.
- Marble tiles, building materials, fridges, microwaves, air conditioners, golf carts, hospitals, hotels, high rises.
- And along the river, the pale lights in the high rises, the red lights Sheen in the painted green fence.
- I'm in my house this coming my first night staying at a place that is my own no roommates, high rise overlooking the city of Atlanta.
- You could seek, I mean, you could seek high rises.
- We did, we did, we, we, we snuck into very where the camps where the, the, where they live with us are making, you know, the high rises and all of this, right?
Examples
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As a matter of fact, we're gonna live in a high-rise building overlooking the city.
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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.
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But this is a high rise office building, right?
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We build the biggest office high rise in the city.
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And it was in the first floor of a high rise that was right on Lake MI, like in downtown Chicago.
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It was in this huge high rise in downtown.
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Surely we need to think about the safety of the people living in socially rented high rise blocks.
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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.
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We build the biggest office high-rise in the city.
Synonyms
A large building with many separate homes where people live
A very tall building with many floors in a city
A tall building with many apartments or offices on different floors
Antonyms
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.