Usually means: Tall building, many floors, urban.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word high-rise:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. high-rise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. high-rise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. high-rise, high-rise: Collins English Dictionary
  4. high-rise: Vocabulary.com
  5. High-Rise, High-rise, high-rise: Wordnik
  6. high-rise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. high-rise: Wiktionary
  8. high-rise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. high-rise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. high-rise: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. high-rise: Dictionary.com
  12. high-rise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. High-Rise, High-rise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. high-rise: Rhymezone
  15. high-rise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. high-rise: FreeDictionary.org
  17. high-rise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. high-rise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. high-rise: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. high-rise: Financial dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High-Rise: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.
▸ adjective:  (of clothing) Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.

Similar:
storeyed, multistorey, multistory, tower block, storied, multistoried, multi-storey, skyscraper, triple-decker, towerblock, more...

Opposite:
low-rise, ground-level, one-story, single-story

Phrases:
high-rise building, high-rise syndrome, High-Rise Invasion, more...

Colors:
    steel gray,     slate gray,     charcoal,     silver,     gunmetal, more...



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Similar:
storeyed, multistorey, multistory, tower block, storied, multistoried, multi-storey, skyscraper, triple-decker, towerblock, more...

Opposite:
low-rise, ground-level, one-story, single-story

Phrases:
high-rise building, high-rise syndrome, High-Rise Invasion, more...

Colors:
    steel gray,     slate gray,     charcoal,     silver,     gunmetal, more...



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