high-rise

Questions about high-rise

What does high-rise mean?

high-rise means "tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in high-rise?

high-rise has 2 syllables and divides as high--rise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for high-rise?

Close synonyms include tower block. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of high-rise?

The recorded antonyms are low-rise.

Is high-rise a common word?

high-rise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.