Other forms: high-rises
A high-rise is a tall block of flats or offices. Live in a high-rise.
The lift decides everything, since a broken one makes the top floors unreachable. A high-rise built badly in the 1960s gave the whole idea a name it has never lost in Britain.
1nounhigh-riseA tall block of flats or offices.
“The high-rise had two lifts and one of them worked.”
high-rise is a building.
High plus rise, on the same pattern as mid-rise and low-rise.
From high + rise. Compare mid-rise.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Buildings & Architecture