skyscraper.
A very tall building with a large number of floors.
Meaning & usage
A very tall building with a large number of floors.
A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
Anything very tall or high.
Where this word comes from
Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.
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