A very tall building that reaches high into the sky, found in modern cities and typically housing offices or apartments.
A compound word from English 'sky' and 'scraper,' first used in the late 1880s when tall buildings began appearing in Chicago and New York. The name describes how high the buildings reach.
The term 'skyscraper' was invented around 1880s America when buildings suddenly started reaching unprecedented heights—before that, nobody had a word for it because the buildings didn't exist; language always creates words when we invent new things.
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