adj
Meaning 1
Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- high-rise jeans
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
high-rise
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noun
Meaning 2
A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- avenues lined with high-rise apartment buildings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: low-rise
noun
Meaning 4
tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tower block
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tower
History
Etymology
From high + rise.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: с висока талия (s visoka talija) — Translations
- Polish: z wysokim stanem — Translations
- Spanish: caderado — Translations
- Spanish: de tiro alto — Translations
- Bulgarian: многоетажен (mnogoetažen) — A tall building
- Czech: výškáč — A tall building
- Danish: højhus — A tall building
- Finnish: kerrostalo — A tall building
- Finnish: tornitalo — A tall building
- French: tour d'habitation — A tall building
- German: Hochhaus — A tall building
- German: Hochbau — A tall building
- Hungarian: toronyház — A tall building
- Italian: palazzo — A tall building
- Italian: condominio — A tall building
- Italian: casa a torre — A tall building
- Japanese: 高層ビル (kōsō-biru) — A tall building
- Korean: 고층 건물 (gocheung geonmul) — A tall building
- Macedonian: висококатница (visokokatnica) — A tall building
- Macedonian: солитер (soliter) — A tall building
- Māori: whare tīkoke — A tall building
- Norwegian Bokmål: høyhus — A tall building
- Norwegian Bokmål: høghus — A tall building
- Norwegian Nynorsk: høghus — A tall building
- Polish: wysokościowiec — A tall building
- Russian: высо́тное зда́ние (vysótnoje zdánije) — A tall building
- Russian: многоэта́жное зда́ние (mnogoetážnoje zdánije) — A tall building
- Russian: высо́тка (vysótka) — A tall building
- Russian: муравейник (muravejnik) — A tall building
- Russian: многоэта́жка (mnogoetážka) — A tall building
- Spanish: edificio alto — A tall building
- Spanish: edificio de gran altura — A tall building
- Swedish: höghus — A tall building
- Ukrainian: багатоповерхі́вка (bahatopoverxívka) — A tall building
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