tower block

1. 1.

   tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments

   “`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'”

   Synonymshigh-rise

   Broadertower

Questions about tower block

What does tower block mean?

tower block means "tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments".

What is another word for tower block?

Close synonyms include high-rise. 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 tower block a common word?

tower block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.