English
Etymology
From high + rise.
Pronunciation
Noun
high-rise (plural high-rises)
- A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.
Translations
A tall building
- Bulgarian: многоетажен (mnogoetažen)
- Czech: výškáč m
- Danish: højhus n
- Finnish: kerrostalo (fi), tornitalo (fi)
- French: tour d'habitation f
- German: Hochhaus (de) n, Hochbau (de) m
- Hungarian: toronyház (hu)
- Italian: palazzo (it) m, condominio (it) m, casa a torre f
- Japanese: 高層ビル (kōsō-biru)
- Korean: 고층 건물 (gocheung geonmul)
- Macedonian: висококатница f (visokokatnica), солитер m (soliter)
- Maori: whare tīkoke
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høyhus n, høghus n
- Nynorsk: høghus n
- Polish: wysokościowiec (pl) m inan
- Russian: высо́тное зда́ние (vysótnoje zdánije), многоэта́жное зда́ние (mnogoetážnoje zdánije), высо́тка (ru) (vysótka), муравейник (ru) m (muravejnik) (colloquial), многоэта́жка (ru) f (mnogoetážka)
- Swedish: höghus (sv) n
- Ukrainian: багатоповерхі́вка f (bahatopoverxívka)
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Adjective
high-rise (not comparable)
- (of clothing) Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.
- high-rise jeans
See also