Synonyms for skyscraper
ˈskaɪˌskreɪ pərsky·scraper

Princeton's WordNet

1. skyscrapernoun

   a very tall building with many stories

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1. • Building

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1. List of paraphrases for "skyscraper":

   high-rise

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1. Will Ripley:

   Note the 105-story pyramid skyscraper, the Ryugyong Hotel. Work began in 1987. Still unfinished.

2. Landmarks Preservation Commission:

   The building is significant architecturally for its intact Renaissance Revival facade that stretches around a corner site and for its steel skeleton-frame construction, features that exemplify the stylistic character and technological advances in skyscraper architecture at the time it was built.

3. Chuzy:

   Demolish a skyscraper, but never destroy trust. The latter is harder to build.

4. Albert Einstein:

   Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

5. Shine Lawyers:

   That’s manifestly inadequate to sanitize a ship that’s the size of a skyscraper.