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landscraper

landscraper noun: a building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.

Noun (1)

landscraper (plural landscrapers)

  1. A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
    • But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.2009 December 28, Dennis Yusko, “Skidmore's sounds of music”, in The Times-Union

Noun (2)

landscraper (plural landscrapers)

  1. A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth.
    • "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.1990 July 22, “Activists protest earth-moving at waste facility site”, in Mohave Daily MIner
  2. (nonstandard) A gardener or gardener.
    • "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."1926, Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons, published 1926, page 184

landscraper meaning in Tamil

landscraper in Tamil

மீ இடக் கட்டிடம்

Forms of landscraper

plurallandscrapers

Origin of landscraper

From land + -scraper.

Compound of land + scraper.

Questions about landscraper

What does landscraper mean?
Landscraper means a building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure.
What is landscraper in Tamil?
Landscraper in Tamil is மீ இடக் கட்டிடம். See Landscraper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is landscraper?
Landscraper is a noun.
What is the plural of landscraper?
The plural of landscraper is landscrapers.

Words near landscraper in the dictionary

  1. landscapism
  2. landscapist
  3. landscapists
  4. landscapity
  5. landscarring
  6. landscraper
  7. landscrapers
  8. landscrip
  9. landscrips
  10. Landseer
  11. Landseers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: landscraper (page history and authors); landscraper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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