high-rise meaning
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high-rise (adjective): used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall.
high-rise has 2 meanings in this dictionary, as adjective and noun.
high-rise as an adjective
high-rise as a noun
- tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments
- `tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'
Synonyms: tower block
Type of: tower
high-rise in a sentence
- He lives on the second floor of that high-rise.
- That's a high-rise, isn't it?
- Algeria doesn't have lots of high-rise buildings.
- Algeria is constructing new high-rise buildings.
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