skyscraper

The Two International Finance Center, a skyscraper in Hong Kong.

Meaning

Noun

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.

Origin

sky + scraper

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