Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

elevator shaft

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: el-e-va-tor shaft
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of liftshaft.

Canadian usage; American usage

Example Sentences

"You know when winter comes to visit these big cities and / the wind starts howling through the elevator shafts"
"Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds."

Usage

Canadian usage
American usage

Inflected Forms

elevator shafts (plural)

Synonyms

liftshaft

Questions

What does elevator shaft mean?: Synonym of liftshaft.

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