skyscraperland
skyscraperland noun: an area with a great amount of skyscrapers.
Noun
skyscraperland (uncountable)
- An area with a great amount of skyscrapers.
- Two forces jostle each other in the American Psyche: the drive to make it big in the culture of corporate skyscraperland; and the yearning to escape these cell-blocks and embrace “meaningful” existence by roaming the frontier as some kind of cowboy or new age hipster.1989, Enclitic, volume 11, page 85
- Smith & Wollensky, corner of Third Avenue and 49th Street (tel. 753-1530), is a big (seating capacity: 400), old-fashioned green and white wooden building in the heart of Third Avenue skyscraperland.1991, John Foreman, New York State (Frommer’s), 2nd edition, pages 71–72
Origin of skyscraperland
From skyscraper + -land.
Questions about skyscraperland
- What does skyscraperland mean?
- Skyscraperland means an area with a great amount of skyscrapers.
- What part of speech is skyscraperland?
- Skyscraperland is a noun.
Words near skyscraperland in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: skyscraperland (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “skyscraperland.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skyscraperland. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.