skyscraper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sky=scrap=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

skyscraper, n. 

 A skysail of a triangular form.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

skyscraper, n. a very tall building of many storeys.

THESAURUS

skyscraper

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

ROGET THESAURUS

skyscraper

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.