Skyscraper

Noun

 * 1) A very tall building with a great number of floors.
 * 2) * 1910, William Henry Irwin, The House of Mystery,
 * As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.
 * 1) * 1912, Elliott O'Donnell, The Sorcery Club,
 * The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of a skyscraper—at least a skyscraper for that part of the city.
 * 1) * 1917, Herman Gastrell Seely, A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life,
 * Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that a skyscraper which he has passed daily for months is out of line with its neighbor, that the seat behind the new little girl was unoccupied and that she stood alone in the aisle during exercises.
 * 1)  A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
 * 2)  Anything very tall or high.
 * 3) * 1920, Zane Grey, The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories,
 * It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.

Thesaurus
antenna tower, architecture, barbican, belfry, bell tower, building, campanile, casa, cliff dwelling, colossus, column, construct, construction, consulate, country house, country seat, cupola, dacha, deanery, derrick, dome, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, establishment, fabric, farm, farmhouse, fire tower, hall, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, lantern, lighthouse, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, martello, martello tower, mast, minaret, monument, obelisk, observation tower, packaged house, pagoda, parsonage, penthouse, pilaster, pile, pillar, pinnacle, pole, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, presidential palace, pylon, pyramid, ranch house, rectory, roof, shaft, sod house, spire, split-level, standpipe, steeple, structure, stupa, superstructure, television mast, tope, tour, tower, town house, turret, vicarage, water tower, windmill tower

Translations

 * Afrikaans: wolkekrabber
 * Arabic: ناطحة سحاب
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: etxeorratz
 * Belarusian: небасяг
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: небостъргач
 * Catalan: gratacel
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 摩天樓, 摩天楼
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skyskraber
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nubskrapulo
 * Estonian: pilvelõhkuja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: rañaceos
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गगनचुंबी इमारत, गगनचुम्बी इमारत
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: pencakar langit


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 超高層ビル, 摩天楼
 * Korean: 마천루 (摩天樓)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: dangoraižis
 * Norwegian: skyskraper
 * Occitan: gratacèl
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: zgârie-nori
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: небодер, облакодер
 * Roman: neboder, oblakoder
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: வானளாவி (vāṅaḷāvi)
 * Thai: (tiikrafâa)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хмарочос
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: nhà chọc trời
 * Volapük: silikratabumot