Associations to the word «Skyscraper»

Wiktionary

SKYSCRAPER, noun. A very tall building with a great number of floors.
SKYSCRAPER, noun. (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
SKYSCRAPER, noun. (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.

Dictionary definition

SKYSCRAPER, noun. A very tall building with many stories.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats