noun
Meaning 1
A tall residential or office building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
tower block
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noun
Meaning 2
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: high-rise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tower
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: højhus — tall building
- Dutch: hoogbouw — tall building
- Dutch: torenflat — tall building
- Estonian: korruselamu — tall building
- Estonian: korrusmaja — tall building
- German: Hochhaus — tall building
- Icelandic: háhýsi — tall building
- Italian: palazzo — tall building
- Italian: condominio — tall building
- Italian: casa a torre — tall building
- Luxembourgish: Héichhaus — tall building
- Norwegian Bokmål: høyhus — tall building
- Norwegian Bokmål: høghus — tall building
- Norwegian Nynorsk: høghus — tall building
- Polish: blok — tall building
- Polish: wieżowiec — tall building
- Polish: drapacz chmur — tall building
- Portuguese: prédio — tall building
- Swedish: höghus — tall building