skyline

Other forms of skyline

plural

skylines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skyline

What does skyline mean?

skyline means "the outline of objects seen against the sky". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skyline?

skyline has 2 syllables: sky-line. The stress falls on "sky". In IPA it is /ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for skyline?

Close synonyms include horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon. 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.

Is skyline a common word?

skyline 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.

What rhymes with skyline?

34 words rhyme with skyline. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.