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low-rise

[ loh-rahyz ]

adjective

  1. having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.
  2. (of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips:

    low-rise jeans.



noun

  1. a low-rise building.

low-rise

adjective

  1. of or relating to a building having only a few storeys Compare high-rise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. such a building
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of low-rise1

First recorded in 1955–60; on the model of high-rise ( def )
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Example Sentences

This is one of those incredibly hip places that looks like a low-rise apartment building.

At the foot of the lone tree hill they came again side by side, and so mounted the next low rise of ground.

The party of Indians were on a low rise several miles distant as we came out of the shelter of the high plateau.

I checked him to a sharp trot until we had passed the first low rise of rolling land which hid my movements from the city.

Carrie watched him from the homestead until at last he sank behind the crest of a low rise.

Carrie looked out into the soft moonlight, and saw a mounted figure cut against the sky on the crest of a low rise.

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