eiffel tower
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An iron tower built in 1889 on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris; a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
Example Sentences
- "If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for."
- "I must say a word about the Eiffel Tower. I do not know what purpose it serves today. But I then heard it greatly disparaged as well as praised. I remember that Tolstoy was the chief among those who disparaged it. He said that the Eiffel Tower was a monument of man's folly, not of his wisdom. Tobacco, he argued, was the worst of all intoxicants, inasmuch as a man addicted to it was tempted to commit crimes which a drunkard never dared to do; liquor made a man mad, but tobacco clouded his intellect and made him build castles in the air. The Eiffel Tower was one of the creations of a man under such influence."
- "I'm headed back down the elevator, having suppressed the impulse to buy an Eiffel Tower table lamp or pencil sharpener."
- "Grandfathers decked out in bright yellow and green soccer jerseys, showing off Eiffel Towers shaved into the back of their heads."
- "Los Angeles is a city of image and imagination: a vast urban expanse filled with buildings and streets, yet relatively free of famous landmarks. There is neither an Eiffel Tower nor a Times Square, no Big Ben or Golden Gate Bridge to symbolize the complex essence of the city."
- "[Billy:] I'm not gay, dude. / [Malcolm:] No, you don't seem gay, man. / [Billy:] I would be down for a little Eiffel Tower action, though. / [Karen:] Not, gross! [Billy:] Well, that's not gay. […] [Karen, being hugged by Billy and Malcolm:] Squeeze me, squeeze me. Squeezed between my two men. A little squeezin'. [kisses air] / [Billy:] Eiffel Tower? / [Karen:] Literally no, never."