Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The line along which the surface of the earth and the sky appear to meet; the horizon.
- n. The outline of a group of buildings or a mountain range seen against the sky.
Wiktionary
- n. The line at which the earth and sky meet, horizon.
- n. The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- v. To outline something against the sky.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- n. the outline of objects seen against the sky
Etymologies
- sky + line. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the Shanghai of last year, I'm sure the skyline is more developed then when you were there in 2004.”
“The Los Angeles skyline is changing, and its going for gold – LEED Gold, that is.”
“Also, winds in skyline cities such as NY only really change at intersections; if he jumped into a firly long straight street he probably would have had no trouble at all. da soc”
“The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is the Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower for the Middle East.”
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“What's the point of going out to enjoy the world if the best bit of the skyline is completely invisible?”
“The latest proposed tower to sprout up among the ever-changing skyline is [...] enKlosure » Blog Archive » Shades of Green Says:”
“The skyline is brutally impressive in the way cathedrals must once have been when nothing was taller.”
“The one that stares out the Manhattan skyline from the banks of the Navesink, the river that cuts through this town that lost more people on that day four years ago than any other place besides New York itself.”
“Hang your stand 20 to 25 feet high or more if the leaves are already down or the skyline is bare, if you're positioned on a sidehill, or if deer will approach it from the front.”
“They know it at the Garden Bowl on Woodward Avenue, built in 1913, where the city bus stops by the front door and the Detroit skyline is just down the street, beyond the blocks with boarded windows.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skyline’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Metaphorical locations
Fictional places that, somehow, everyone has heard of anyway.
Real places that have taken on the veneer of myth.
Anywhere that's really nowhere.Bumfuck, Idaho, Timbuktu, Dullsville, Anytown, USA, Nowheresville, The Boondocks, The Boonies, Skid Row, Main Street, the wrong side of..., cloudcuckooland, utopia and 45 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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S
saffron, sapphire, sashay, satin, seashell, seductive, sepia, serene, shadow, shimmer, silhouette, skyline and 96 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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lines
line-know-of-them
guy line, chorus line, party line, front line, foul line, life line, love line, bottom line, red line, credit line, by line, dotted line and 106 more...
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lix's Words
clepsydra, enamour, enchantment, llovizna, rain, autumn, eloquence, exasperante, dandelion, violin, concertina, acuarela and 39 more...
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set the mood
breeze, moonblink, daybreak, skyline, cloud, silver lining, sunsetting, fog, windfall, early, mist, morning and 7 more...
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lovely words
talon, flightless, feathered, coral, innocence, breathing, golden, scent, crinkle, colors, flushed, seamist and 57 more...
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Web Browser Words
A set of words that may be useful too put together a name for one.
thin, aquam, bento, wind, gaze, water, foreglance, cloud, skyline, view, fire, light and 9 more...
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halo's Words
throat, shimmer, dusk, coil, fingertips, lush, skin, spine, collarbone, whisper, breathe, spill and 55 more...
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Favorite words: 2012 edition
carousel, merry-go-round, Manhattan, alive, skyscraper, city, cityscape, mauve, defenestrate, twisted, insane, gone and 13 more...
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you write such pretty words
words that are pretty.
sparkle, shimmer, haze, sunlight, starlight, mist, illuminate, ocean, sunrise, sunset, serendipity, orchard and 84 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for skyline.
oroboros Like reflections in a forest pool
Straightening after a tossed stone,
The mind slowly stills.
My hands are empty; my gaze rests on the hills...
"Reveal your secret story O wise mountains," I ask.
But the cipher of the skyline script remains unbroken.
Such silent...divine...calligraphy. May 3, 2008
oroboros Mountain skyline juts
Purple gray against azure
Like infinite script Mar 10, 2007