Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a building having few stories and often no elevators: a low-rise apartment house.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Lower than the highest heights; -- used of buildings of one or only a few stories.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low.
Etymologies
- low1 + (high)-rise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Bethel AME occupies an imposing, Gothic-style white stone building with a towering steeple that stands out amid the surrounding boarded-up brownstones, low-rise public housing, and crumbling, mostly vacant row houses.”
“One only has to drive through Mississauga or Brampton to see what taller buildings in otherwise low-rise neighbourhoods do to the make-up of the neighbourhood.”
“One only has to drive through Mississauga or Brampton to see what taller buildings in low-rise neighbourhoods do to the make-up of the area.”
“Heck, two 10-storey buildings are planned all the way out on Costigan Road, an otherwise low-rise area with an almost rural feel to it.”
“He notes that many office tenants are now working out of old low-rise buildings and villas where they have to pay for their own security guards and power generators, meaning they may eventually be eager to move to more modern facilities.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cambodia's Developers Again Aim at Stars
“The building is also notable for its design, a departure from the colonial villas and low-rise buildings with businesses on the ground and housing above that dominate most of Phnom Penh.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cambodia's Developers Again Aim at Stars
“PHNOM PENH—Cambodia's low-rise capital city is reaching for the sky—again.”
The Wall Street Journal: Cambodia's Developers Again Aim at Stars
“The next, you're in a sleepy district of low-rise residential buildings and squalid factories.”
“And here is Strange himself, as seen by a prospective client: "tall and broad shouldered, wearing low-rise bells, a wide black belt, brass-eye stacks, a rayon shirt stretched out across his chest, and a thick Roundtree mustache.”
“Despite its proximity to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the site today consists of undeveloped lots and low-rise buildings, one of which houses a New York state parole office.”
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